THOMAS] PAGING OF THE DRESDEN CODEX. 267 



7i pages." These 7-4 page.s are here arranged ou 27 leaves in the fol- 

 lowing manner: 



Codex A. Codex B. 



1, 3, 3, 46, 47. 48, 



4, 5, 6, 49, 50, 51, 



7; 8, 9, 52, 53, 54, 



10, 11, 55, 56, 57, 



13, 13, 14. 58, 59, 60, 



15, 16, 17, 61, 63, 63, 



18, 19, 64, 65. 66, 



20, 67, 68, 69, 



21, 33, 33, 70, 71, 73, 

 24, 35, 73, 74. 

 26, 37, 38, 



29, 30, 31, 

 82, 33, 34, 

 35, 36, 37, 

 88, 39, 40, 

 41, 43, 43, 

 44, 45. 



"On the vjhole, therefore, each leaf in Kingsborough comprises 

 three pages of our manuscript. Why the publisher joined only two 

 pages in the case of 10 and 11, 18 and 10, 24 and 25, and left page 20 

 entirely separate, I cannot say; but when he failed to add 4G to 44 

 and 45 it was due to the fact that here there is indication of a differ- 

 ent manuscript. 



"■On January 27, 1832, Lord Kingsborough wrote a letter from 

 Mitchellstown, near Cork, in Ireland, to Fr. Ad. Ebert, then head 

 librarian at Dresden, thanking him again for the permission to have 

 the manuscript copied and telling him that he had ordered his pub- 

 lisher in London to send to the Royal Public Library at Dresden one 

 of the ten copies of the work in folio. The original of the letter is 

 in Ebert's manuscript correspondence in the Dresden library. 



"On April 27, 1832, when the copy had not yet arrived at Dresden, 

 an anonymoiis writer, in No. 101 of the Leijaziger Zeitung, gave a 

 notice of this donation, being unfortunate enough to confound Hum- 

 boldt's copy with that of Lord Kingsborough, not having seen the 

 work himself. Ebert, in the Dresden Anzeiger. May 5, made an angry 

 rejoinder to this "hasty and obtrusive notice." Bottiger, whom we 

 mentioned above and who till tlien was a close friend of Ebert. on 

 May 12, in the last named journal, defended the anonymous writer 

 (who perhaps was himself) in an extremely violent tone. Ebert's re- 

 plies in the same journal became more and more ferocious, till Botti- 

 ger, in an article of May 25 (No. 1.50 dft lie same j<iui-Mal), broke off the 

 dispute at this point. Thus the gn'.it liililio-r.iphci- and the great ar- 

 chaeologist were made enemies for a Iciiig tiiiii' hy iiii'unsof our codex. 



" From Kingsborough's work various specimens of the manuscript 

 passed into other books; thus we find some in Silvestre, PaMographie 

 universelle. Paris, 1839-'41, fol. ; in Rosny. Les ^critures figuratives 



