Ensayo sobre la interpretación de la escritura hierática de la América Central

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Author: Rosny, Leon Louis Lucien Prunol de (1837-1914) Year: 1881 Publisher: Imprenta y Fundicion de Manuel Tello Place: Madrid Description: [8]+xxi+113+[5] pages with figures, drawings (some in color) and xx leaves of plates of which number XX folds out. Elephant folio (18" x 12") bound in quarter red leather with six raised band compartments lettered and decorated in gilt over marbled boards. Translated by Juan de Dios de la Rada and Delgado. First Spanish edition limited to 200 copies of which this is number 141. This Spanish-language translation of Rosny's essay on hieroglyphic writing is from the Codex Troano, which was named for a previous owner, Don Juan Tro and Ortolano, a professor of Spanish palaeography. In his prologue to this book, Juan Rada and Delgado endorses Rosny's assertion that the Maya codex purchased by a Madrid museum in 1875 and named Codex Cortesianus is truly part of the same book as the Codex Troano, which was discovered in Spain in the 1860s By Brasseur de Bourbourg. The two fragments were reunited in 1888, and the whole is now known as the Madrid Codex. The reconnected manuscript consists of fifty-six leaves, with writing on both sides. Its date has been disputed, with most scholars believing that it was executed late in the Post-Classic period but before the Spanish invasion. With the formation of the Societe Americaine de France established in 1857, primarily with the enthusiasm of Braseur de Borubourg and a small number of scholars and among th

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