XXxii INTRODUCTION. 



the pages in Kingsborough's edition. The artist Aglio took first one frag- 

 ment and copied both sides, and tlien proceeded to the next one; and it is 

 not certain that in either case he l)egins with the first page in the original 

 order of the book. 



The Codex Peresianus, or Codex Mexicanus, No. II, of the BibUotheqm 

 Nationale of Paris. — This fragment — for it is unfortunately nothing more — 

 was discovered in 1859 by Prof Leon de Ro.sny among a mass of old papers 

 in the National Library. It consists of eleven leaves, twenty-two pages, 

 each 9 inches long and h\ inches wide. The writing is very much defaced, 

 but was evidently of a highly artistic character, probably the most so of 

 any manuscript known. It unquestionably belongs to the Maya manu- 

 scripts. 



Its origin is unknown. The papers in which it was wrapped bore the 

 name "Perez," in a Spanish hand of the seventeenth century, and hence the 

 name "Peresianus" was given it. By order of the Minister of Public In- 

 struction ten photographic copies of this Codex, without reduction, were pre- 

 pared for the use of scholars. None of them was placed on sale, and so 

 far as I know the only one which has found its way to the United States is 

 that in my own library. An ordinary lithographic reproduction was given 

 in the Archives j)aUographiques de VOrient et de VAmenque, tome i (Paris, 

 1869-'71). 



The Codex Tro, or Troano. — The publication of this valuable Codex we 

 owe to the enthusiasm of the Abbd Brasseur (de Bourbourg). On his return 

 from Yucatan in 1864 he visited Madrid, and found this Manuscript in the 

 possession of Don Juan de Tro y Ortolano, professor of paleography, and 

 himself a descendant of Hernan Cortes. The abbd named it Troano, as a 

 compound of the two names of its former owner; but later writers often 

 content themselves by referring to it simply as the Codex Tro. 



It consists of thirty-five leaves and seventy pages, each of which is 

 larger than a page of the Dresden Codex, but less than one of the Codex 

 Peresianus. It was published by chromolithography at Paris, in 1869, 

 prefaced by a study on the graphic system of the Mayas by the abb(i, and 

 an attempt at a translation. The reproduction, which was carried out under 

 the efficient care of M. Leonce Angrand, is extremely accurate. 



All three of these codices were written on paper manufactured from 



