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Book Commentary on the Dresden Codex

Download or read book Commentary on the Dresden Codex written by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentary on the Dresden Codex

Download or read book Commentary on the Dresden Codex written by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Commentary on the Dresden Codex

Download or read book A Commentary on the Dresden Codex written by John Eric Sidney Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Madrid Codex

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  • Author : Gabrielle Vail
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-03-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book The Madrid Codex written by Gabrielle Vail and published by . This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Petén region of Guatemala and postdates European contact. The contributors to this volume challenge that view by demonstrating convincingly that it originated in northern Yucatán 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. Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, John F. Chuchiak IV, Christine L. Hernández, Bryan R. Just, Merideth Paxton, and John Pohl. Additional support for this publication was generously provided by the Eugene M. Kayden Fund at the University of Colorado.

Book The Dresden Codex

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  • Author : Carlos A. Villacorta
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992*
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book The Dresden Codex written by Carlos A. Villacorta and published by . This book was released on 1992* with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden

Download or read book Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden written by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.

Book The Dresden Codex

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  • Author : Uknown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-03-09
  • ISBN : 9781986362122
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book The Dresden Codex written by Uknown and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dresden Codex, Latin Codex Dresdensis, one of the few collections of pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphic texts known to have survived the book burnings by the Spanish clergy during the 16th century. The codex was rediscovered in the city of Dresden, Germany, and that is how the Maya book received its present name. It contains astronomical calculations (eclipse-prediction tables, the synodical period of Venus) of exceptional accuracy.The codex was acquired by the Saxon State Library, Dresden, Saxony, and was published by Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, in Antiquities of Mexico (1830-48). The book received direct water damage that was significantly destructive from being kept in a flooded basement during the bombing of Dresden in World War II. The pages are made of Amate, 8 inches high, and can be folded accordion-style; when unfolded the codex is 12 feet long.

Book Calculating Brilliance

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  • Author : Gerardo Aldana
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 0816542201
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Calculating Brilliance written by Gerardo Aldana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contextualizes the discovery of a Venus astronomical pattern by a female Mayan astronomer at Chich'en Itza and the discovery's later adaptation and application at Mayapan. Calculating Brilliance brings different intellectual threads together across time and space, from the Classic to the Postclassic, the colonial period to the twenty-first century to offer a new vision for understanding Mayan astronomy.

Book Toward a Global Middle Ages

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  • Author : Bryan C. Keene
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2019-09-03
  • ISBN : 160606598X
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Toward a Global Middle Ages written by Bryan C. Keene and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.

Book The Paris Codex

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  • Author : Bruce Love
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Paris Codex written by Bruce Love and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other sections cover weather almanacs; the influence of God C, also known as k'u; the four yearbearers with their thirteen numbers; the Maya spirit entities, including sky gods and earth or death gods; and the Maya constellations.

Book Furies of Calderon

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  • Author : Jim Butcher
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2005-06-28
  • ISBN : 9780441012688
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Furies of Calderon written by Jim Butcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies—elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal. But in the remote Calderon Valley, the boy Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy—the Marat horde—return to the Valley, Tavi’s courage and resourcefulness will be a power greater than any fury, one that could turn the tides of war...

Book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex

Download or read book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex written by Carl Eugen Guthe and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden

Download or read book Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden written by Ernst Försteman and published by The Museum. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden Some of those who examine this book will say, that it is too early for a commentary on the "Dresdensis," since Maya research is yet in its infancy, and this opinion is certainly justified inasmuch as a final explanation of that remarkable monument is, of course, impossible at the present time. On the other hand the accounts of the numerous investigations and discoveries which have been made thus far are so isolated and so scattered in the shape of a hundred short magazine articles, that it is certainly desirable to have what we know and what we have still to learn gathered together under one head. This book is intended, therefore, to give an idea of the state of our knowledge in this department of research at this time, when the nineteenth century is passing into the twentieth, with the definite expectation that this work will soon be far outstripped and will possess an historical value only. The contents of the following pages are of very little value, unless the student can compare them with an edition of the manuscript. My first edition was published in 1880 at Leipsic and the second at Dresden in 1892. The edition in Lord Kingsborough's "Mexican Antiquities" (in Volume III of that work, London, 1831) is still of practical use. And since in this work I must premise a knowledge of the elements of the subject, I would recommend, as additional aids to the comprehension of the following pages, my "Erläuterungen zur Mayahandschrift der Königlichen öffentlichen Bibliothek zu Dresden" (Dresden, 1886), and also Brinton, "A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics" (in the publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in Philology, Literature and Archaeology, Vol. III). I would also mention the very valuable work by {54}Paul Schellhas, "Die Göttergestalten der Mayahandschriften" (Dresden, 1897), which I follow in the designation of the various gods by letters of the alphabet.

Book Popol Vuh

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 0684818450
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Popol Vuh written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.

Book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex

Download or read book Commentary Upon the Maya Tzental Perez Codex written by William Edmond Gates and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: