The Madrid Codex : new approaches to understanding an ancient Maya manuscript / edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni.

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Mesoamerican worldsPublication details: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 426 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0870818619
9780870818615
0870817868
9780870817861

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Madrid Codex.DDC classification:

972.81/016 22

LOC classification:

F1219.56.C628 M33 2004

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Contents:

Research methodologies and new approaches to interpreting the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni -- The paper patch on page 56 of the Madrid Codex / Harvey M. Bricker -- Papal bulls, extirpators, and the Madrid Codex: the content and probable provenience of the M. 56 patch / John F. Chuchiak -- Tayasal origin of the Madrid Codex: further consideration of the theory / Merideth Paxton -- Maya calendars and dates: interpreting the calendrical structure of Maya almanacs / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni -- Intervallic structure and cognate almanacs in the Madrid and Dresden Codices / Anthony Aveni -- Haab dates in the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Victoria R. Bricker -- A reinterpretation of Tzolk'in almanacs in the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail -- In extenso almanacs in the Madrid Codex / Bryan R. Just -- The inauguration of planting in the Borgia and Madrid Codices / Christine Hernández and Victoria R. Bricker -- 'Yearbearer pages' and their connection to planting almanacs in the Borgia Codex / Christine Hernández -- Screenfold manuscripts of highland Mexico and their possible influence on Codex Madrid: a summary / John M.D. Pohl.

Action note:

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve

Summary: Annotation This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Peten region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatan and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

Print version record.

Annotation This volume offers new calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. The longest of the surviving Maya codices, this manuscript includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practiced by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries A.D. Some scholars have recently argued that the Madrid Codex originated in the Peten region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatan and was painted in the Pre-Columbian era. In addition, several contributors reveal provocative connections among the Madrid and Borgia group of codices from Central Mexico.

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.