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The Dresden Codex is a Maya book, which was believed to be the oldest surviving book written in the Americas, ... Facsimile: Codex Dresdensis, Akademische Druck- u ...
The Dresden Codex (Codex Dresdensis) is held in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek (SLUB), the state library in Dresden, Germany. It is the most elaborate of the codices, and also a highly important specimen of Maya art.
The codex depicts hieroglyphs and numerals and figures, and contains ritual and divination calendars, calculations of the phases of Venus, eclipses of the sun and moon, instructions relating to new-year ceremonies, and descriptions of the locations of the Rain God, which culminate in a full-page miniature showing a great deluge.
It holds significant treasures, including the Codex Dresdensis, a book which was believed to be the oldest surviving book written in the Americas, dating to the 11th or 12th century. [2] Within the SLUB is the Deutsche Fotothek, holding some 4 million photographs from the past 80 years, and the German Stenographic Institute.
The treasure chamber of the book museum contains especially valuable pieces from the SLUB's holdings. The most important exhibit from a scientific-historical point of view is the Codex Dresdensis, a Mayan manuscript acquired in 1739 by the Elector Friedrich August II for his collection.
For the purposes of this compilation, as in philology, a "codex" is a manuscript book published from the late Antiquity period through the Middle Ages. (The majority of the books in both the list of manuscripts and list of illuminated manuscripts are codices.)
The book museum of the Saxon State Library presents the Dresden Codex. [125] The Kraszewski Museum is a museum dedicated to the most prolific Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, who lived in Dresden from 1863 to 1883. [126]
The Mayan numeral system was the system to represent numbers and calendar dates in the Maya civilization.It was a vigesimal (base-20) positional numeral system.The numerals are made up of three symbols: zero (a shell), [1] one (a dot) and five (a bar).