TABLE FROM THE CODEX PERESIANUS. 



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Xot this only, for this table of the 

 Codex Peresianus furnishes us also the 

 explanation of the red numerals found 

 over the day columns in the Manuscript 

 Troauo. Take, for example, Plate XIX, 

 first or upper division, given also in my 

 Study of The Manuscript Troauo, p. 

 170, here the number is IV, correspond- 

 ing with column 4 of the above table 

 (V), where the days are the same and 

 the numeral prefixed to each day is 4. 

 Plate XXVI (Study Manuscript Tro- 

 auo, p. 177), lower division, the days are 

 the same and the number over the col- 

 umn is XIII, corresponding with the 

 sixth column of Table V. This corrob- 

 orates the opinion 1 expressed in my 

 former work, that the number over the 

 column was to be applied to each day 

 of the column. 



Why is the order of the numerals in 

 the extract from the Codex Peresianus 

 precisely the same as the numbering of 

 the Ahaues? I answer, because each 

 column, if taken as referring to the four 

 classes of years, will, when the number 

 of the month is given, determine just 

 the years of an Ahau ; or a fancy of the 

 artist to follow an order considered 

 sacred. 



To illustrate, let us take the next to 

 the right-hand column of the table where 

 the numeral is 1, and let us assume the 

 month to be Pop, or the 1st. Then we 

 have 1 Cib, 1 Ahau, 1 Kan, 1 Lainat, 

 and 1 Eb of the Hist mouth, and from 

 this data we are to tind the years. As 

 there can be four years found to each 

 of these days, that is a Cauac year with 

 1 Cib in the first month, a Muluc year 

 with one Cib in the first month, a Kan 

 year with one Cib in the first month, 

 an Ix year with one Cib in the first 

 mouth, a Kan year with one Ahau iu 

 the first month, &C, it is evident that 

 there will be, as the total result, just 

 twenty years. 



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