Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson Commentary Dresden Codex
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Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson. A Commentary on the Dresden Codex: A Maya Hieroglyphic Book. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1972. First Edition. Fine/very good. A fine first edition [HAND T121] in a very good dust jacket. Printed at the Stinehour Press, Vermont. Brown buckram covers with gold title stamping on cover and spine. Gold end papers. From the private library of Larry Southwick, collector's tiny marginalia pencilled near front hinge. Illustrated with color facsimile plates of the codex. In a very good dust jacket showing multiple closed tears, missing a small piece at head of spine on jacket. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 156 pp. Folio, 15 x 11 inches tall. The Dresden Codex, also known as the Codex Dresdensis, is a pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá. This Maya codex is believed to be a copy of an original text of some three or four hundred years earlier. It is the oldest book written in the Americas known to historians. Of the hundreds of books that were used in Mesoamerica before the Spanish conquest, it is one of only 15 that have survived to the present day. The Dresden Codex consists of 39 sheets, inscribed on both sides, with an overall length of 3.56 metres (11.7 feet). Originally, the manuscript had been folded in accordion folds. Today, it is exhibited in two parts, each of them approximately 1.8 metres (5.9 feet) long, at the museum of the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany. The document has played a key role in the decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphs.
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