TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Preface ? ^"^.':'. 



Eesultsof my investigations of the Manuscript Troano v 



Table of Contents 



Llstof Ilhistratious 



Introduction by Dr. D. G. Brinton xvii 



The graphic system and ancient records of the Mayas xvii 



1. Introductory •■ 



2. Descriptions by Spanish writers ^jjj 



3. References from native sources xxvii 



4. The existing Codices j-^jj. 



5. Efforts at interpretation xxxiv 



Chapter I.— The Manuscript and its Characters 1 



II. — The Maya Calendar r 



III.— Explanation of Figures and Characters on Plates XX-XXIII of the Manuscript 



Troano, and 25-28 of the Dresden Codex 59 



IV.— Suggestions as to the probable meaning of some of the figures on the other plates . 



Part First of the Manuscript go 



Part Second of the Manuscript jjj 



v.— Symbols, Pictographs, and other Figures which cannot be properly classed as 



Written Characters j25 



VI.— The Written Characters of the Manuscript 136 



The direction in which they are to be read 136 



The order in which the parts of compound characters are to be taken 140 



VII.— Illustrations of the Day Columns and numbers in the first part of the Manuscript. 162 



VIII.— A Discussion of Dates, with special reference to those of the Perez Manuscript.. . 187 



The Maya Manuscript lyg 



M'l.V''' 188 



Translation jgg 



IX.— Ins riptions on the PaJenquo Tablet 198 



Appendices 009 



Appendix No. 1.— Extracts from the "Relacion de Cosas de Yucatan" ol Diego de Landa, in re- 

 lation to the festirah of the supplementary or closing days of the year, 



H XXXV-XXXVII. (Pp. 210-226.) " UOO 



No. 2.— Quotation from an article by Seiior Melgar ^Id 



No. 3.— Translation of Landa's description of the festivals held in the difierent 



months of the year. Relacion, pp. 240-310 217 



No. 4. — Mode of Building Houses among the Yucatecs— Landa 228 



No. 5. — Manucr of Baptism in Yucatan — Landa 229 



Original 229 



Translation 231 



