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The codex is fragmented, consisting of eleven pages out of what is presumed to be a twenty-page book and five single pages. [39] The codex has been housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexico, since 2016, and is the only of the four Maya codices that still resides in the Americas. [40]
The Codex was first displayed at the Grolier Club in New York, hence its name. The first Mexican owner, Josué Saenz, claimed that the manuscript had been recovered from a cave in the Mexican state of Chiapas in the 1960s, along with a mosaic mask, a wooden box, a knife handle, as well as a child's sandal and a piece of rope, along with some blank pages of amate (pre-Columbian fig-bark paper).
The Maya codices, in contrast, are composed of a long strip of bark paper, or Amate, folded in the same accordion-like, screen-fold way as the Codex Borgia group. The most important codices were likely adorned with jaguar fur covers, although there is only documentational evidence of this.
The Dresden Codex is a Maya book, which was believed to be the oldest surviving book written in the Americas, dating to the 11th or 12th century. [1] However, in September 2018 it was proven that the Maya Codex of Mexico , previously known as the Grolier Codex, is, in fact, older by about a century. [ 2 ]
The codex also contains astronomical tables, although fewer than those in the other three surviving Maya codices. [9] Some of the content is likely to have been copied from older Maya books. [10] Included in the codex is a description of the New Year ceremony. [11]
One fragment contains animals that represent astronomical signs along the ecliptic including a scorpion and a peccary; [11] fragments of this Maya "zodiac" are depicted on two pages of the codex. [12] Some pages of the codex are marked with annotations made with Latin characters. [1] On one side of the codex the general format of each page ...
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Michael Douglas Coe (May 14, 1929 – September 25, 2019) [1] was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, epigrapher, and author.He is known for his research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly the Maya, and was among the foremost Mayanists [2] of the late twentieth century.