Dresden Almanacs 40 & 47


Almanac 40
Dresden 17B - 18B

Main sign T791 and its affix T47 can be found
at the upper left corner of the panel on the left.



Almanac 47
Dresden 16C - 17C

Main sign T791 and its affix T47 can be found
at the upper left corner of the panel on the right.




  Drawings scanned from photocopies taken from the following publication:

Title:         Codices mayas, reproducidos y desarrollados por J. Antonio
                 Villacorta C. y Carlos A. Villacorta ... Guatemala, C. A.
                 Tipografia nacional 1930 [i.e. 1933]

Author:        Villacorta C., J. Antonio (Jose Antonio Villacorta Calderon),
               and Villacorta C., Carlos A.

Description:   450 p. illus. (facsims.) 27 cm.

Notes:         Date on cover: 1933.
               Cover title: Codices mayas, dresdensis, peresianus,
                 tro-cortesianus.
               Originally issued in parts.

The Dresden Codex:
Drawings of the pages and commentary in Spanish

by Carlos A. Villacorta and J. Antonio Villacorta
has been published by the Aegean Park Press.
Now available in paperback (special order)
from
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They're found online at www.bookstore.com.

  Almanac & glyph identification (and encyclopedic knowledge) drawn from:

Title:         A commentary on the Dresden codex; a Maya hieroglyphic book [by]
                 J. Eric S. Thompson. Philadelphia, American Philosophical
                 Society, 1972.

Author:        Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir, 1898-1975.

Description:   156 p. col. facsim. 29 x 39 cm.

Series:        Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v. 93.

Notes:         "The Dresden codex (The facsimile)" p. [121]-[147]
               Companion vol. to the author's Maya hieroglyphic writing: an
                 introduction, and A catalog of Maya hieroglyphs.
               Bibliography: p. 117-120.

Other entries: Codex Dresdensis Maya. 1972.
               Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society v. 93.


Title:         Un comentario al Codice de Dresde, libro de jeroglifos mayas /
                 J. Eric S. Thompson ; traduccion de Jorge Ferreiro Santana ;
                 revision de Lauro Jose Zavala. 1a ed. en espanol. Mexico :
                 Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1988.

Author:        Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir, 1898-1975.

Description:   310 p. ; 27 cm.

Notes:         Translation of: A commentary on the Dresden codex, a Maya
                 hieroglyphic book.
               The facsim., published separately, has title Codice de Dresde
                 and date 1983.
               Includes index.
               Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-302)

Other entries: Codex Dresdensis Maya. 1972.
               Codice de Dresde.


Title:         Maya hieroglyphic writing; introduction. Washington, 1950.
Description:   xvi, 347 p. illus., map. 30 cm.

Series:        Carnegie Institution of Washington. Publications 589.

Notes:         Bibliography: p. 329-339.

Subjects:      Mayan languages -- Writing.
               Maya calendar.

Other entries: United States District of Columbia Washington (1950)
               Carnegie Institution of Washington publication ; 589.


Title:         A catalog of Maya hieroglyphs / by J. Eric S. Thompson. [1st
                 ed.]  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press ; Washington, D.C.
                 : published in co-operation with The Carnegie Institution,
                 1962.

Author:        Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Sir, 1898-1975.

Description:   xiv, 458 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Series:        The Civilization of the American Indian series ; [62].

Notes:         Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-424). 

The titles Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: An Introduction and
A Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs by J. Eric S. Thompson are now
available in paperback from the University of Oklahoma Press.
I encourage you to visit your local bookseller and order a copy,
or you can place an order online at Amazon.Com



Muchas Gracias to the Regents of the University of California for
making the bibliographic data available via the Melvyl catalog.


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