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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 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.
The Dresden Codex, also known as the Codex Dresdensis (74 pages, 3.56 metres [11.7 feet]); [12] dating to the 11th or 12th century. [ 13 ] The Madrid Codex , also known as the Tro-Cortesianus Codex (112 pages, 6.82 metres [22.4 feet]) dating to the Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology ( circa 900–1521 AD).; [ 14 ]
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 codex contains the text of the four Gospels on 168 parchment leaves (21.2 cm by 16.5 cm). The text is written in one column per page, 27-28 lines per page. [2] According to Scrivener it is barbarously written. [3]
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 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. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is dated to about 1200 AD and is one of the four preserved codices of this type in the world.
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).