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MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS. 



Fortunately we find ou Plates 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus 1 

 what appears to be a complete confirmation of the theory here advanced. 



This is a kind of tabular arrangement of certain days, with accom- 

 panying numbers, as shown in our Fig. 3, which is an exact copy of 

 those portions of Plates 18 and 19 of the Codex Peresianus, to which I 

 refer. 



I also give in Table V the names of the days and the numbers cor- 

 responding with the symbols and characters of Fig. 3. In this table the 

 erased days and obliterated numerals are restored, these being in italics 

 to distinguish them from those on the plate. 



An inspection of this table shows us that the five days repeated in 

 each column are the same as those on the right of the quadrilateral of 

 our scheme (Fig. 2), and are exactly in the order obtained by arranging 

 the days of the mouth in four columns in the manner heretofore shown. 

 (See column 4, Table IV.) 



If I am correct in my supposition, we then have one clue to, if not a 

 full explanation of, the method of obtaining the day columus in the Man- 

 uscript Troano. 



1 Manusrrit dit Mexicaiu No. 2. — The Bureau of Ethnology has had the good fortune to 

 obtain a copy of Durny's photographic reproduction of this Manuscript, of which, ac- 

 cording to Leclerc (Bibliotheca Americana), only ten copies were issued, though Bras- 

 seur in his Bibliotheque Mexico-Guatetmilienne (p. 95) affirms that the edition con- 

 sisted of fifty copies. The full title is as follows: "Manuscrit dit Mexicain No.2 (le la 

 Bibliotheque Imperials Photographie (sans reduction). Par ordre de S. E. M. Duriiy, Min- 

 ixtre de V Instruction publiquc, President de la Commission scxentifique du Mexique. Paris, 

 1864." 



Rosny has given a facsimile copy from the two plates here referred to in Plate XVI 

 of his Essai sur le Dechiffrement de VEcriture Hieratique. 



