The Madrid Codex

Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2009. FIrst Paperback Edition. Octavo in wraps; 426 pp: illustrations, photographs, maps; 23 cm Near fine(+); near imperceptible rubbing to top of spine, else wraps clean and glossy; pages bright and crisp; binding tight. Paperback. ISBN: 9780870819391

"Offers calendrical models and methodologies for reading, dating, and interpreting the general significance of the Madrid Codex. This volume includes texts and images painted by scribes conversant in Maya hieroglyphic writing, a written means of communication practised by Maya elites from the second to the fifteenth centuries AD." | Contents: Research methodologies and new approaches to interpreting the Madrid Codex / Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni. Provenence and dating of the Madrid Codex.