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Tavo iiuuibers are sot dovvii Avith this day XII 5, one in red and 

 one in black: 1,578,088 on page 51 and 1,412,848 on page 52. The 

 first ninnber points to the sixth day of the eighteenth month [Cuniku | 

 in the year Kan ; the second, to the first day of the fifteenth month 

 [Moan] in the year 6 Miihic. 



From the year G Muluc to the year 6 Kan there are 39 years, or 

 14,235 days; from the first day of the fifteenth month to the sixth 

 day, of the eighteenth month there are 05 days; therefore the two 

 dates are separated by an interval of 14,235-(-G5, or 14,300 days, unless 

 a round number consisting of multiples of a katun (18,980 days) 

 comes into question. But 1,578,988 — 1,412,848 equals 166,140. 

 Again, if 14,300 is subtracted from this last number, the remainder is 

 151,840, actually then 8X18,980 or 416X365 (solar j^ars) or 260X584 

 (Venus years) or 52X^2,920 (Venus-solar periods). Thus I am justi- 

 fied in IniAdng really read 8 katuns on page 51. 



Moreover, I found this number 151,840 by computation once before 

 in the manuscript. Compare my fourth article in this series.- where 

 I pointed out that it is the ditlerence between the two numbers 

 185,120 and 33,280 on page 24 of the manuscript. On the last-named 

 page, if my restoration of the eft'aced passage is correct, this same 

 number stands as the highest of the series, actually set down as the 

 quadruple of 37,960, in which the solar year, the Venus j^ear, and the 

 tonalamatl accord. 



All these remarks relate to the day XII 5, the middle one of the 

 three days XI 4. XII 5, and XIII 6. But the third day, XIII 6, 

 also demands consideration, for on it depends the great series that 

 begins on page 58 at the right and extends over the whole of page 59, 

 which has for its difference 780, in which I recognized the period of 

 the apparent revolution of Mars. 



We must now leave the clear domain of numbers and enter a mys- 

 terious realm in which science thus far has reaped but a scanty har- 

 vest, and on which I, too, can throAv but little light. As on pages 46 

 to 50 at the end of each period of 2,920 days there are three pictures, 

 so there are pictures, ten in all, inserted between the different numbers 

 and symbols. 



One of these pictures, the eighth, on page 56b, stands in the wrong 

 place in consequence of the error in computation which I discovered 

 in groups 58 and 59. It does not belong before, but after, group 59, 

 the first on page 56b. This the manuscript itself suggests, for in 

 group 59 the two glyphs usually standing above each group are miss- 

 ing, and in their stead we find a character resembling a snail. But 

 this, according to my Erliiuteriuigen, page 29, is nothing more than 

 an emphasized zero, Avhich indicates that the section marked by a 

 picture closes with this group. 



