20 A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEOANO. 



We know that tables of days of this form are to be found in some two 

 or three of the Mexican Codices; something similar is also to be fomid in 

 the Dresden Codex, and by placing the columns of these four plates of the 

 Manuscript side by side we will have just such a table.' 



But be this as it may, the exact agreement in the other three columns, 

 and the fact that the years named and numbered appear to belong to one 

 continuous period of time — an all-important point in this connection — show, 

 as we think, conclusively that our explanation of these numerals and the 

 day characters, and of the use here made of them, is correct. If so, then 

 the red numerals are used to numbei' the days and years of the week, or, 

 in other words, to number the days and years exactly as the various writers 

 have stated was tlie usual custom. We have marked this period on the 

 tables of j'ears with waved lines so as to be seen at a glance, as we shall 

 have occasion hereafter to refer to it. 



As further proof that these red numerals are limited to the thirteen 

 series, I now call attention to certain short columns found in the middle 

 division of Plates VII*-X*. These consist of three days each — Cib, Cuban, 

 and Ezanab — and each day has a numeral over ft, as follows (I give here 

 the exact order in which they stand on the plates, although I have doubts 

 as to the correctness of Brasseur's paging) : 



' Since the above was written, I have been so fortunate as to procure a copy of Leon De RosnyV 

 Essai svr le Dechiffrenieni de L'Ecriture Hieraiique de L'Jmeriqtie Centrale, in wliich I iind a copy of a 

 plate of the CODEX Coutesianus, and also of one plate of the Codex Peresianus. In the former is 

 part of a table of days arranged precisely as in my tabic, except that they are plnced horizontally, as 

 here shown, instead of in cohimns: 



Been. Ix. Men. Cib. Cabau. 



Ezanab. Cauac. Ahau. Iniix, Ik. 



Akbal. Kan. Chicclian. Cimi. MauiL 



Lamat. Muluc. Oc. Chucn. Eb. 



Whether or not this fragment contains the commencement, I am unable to say; that it docs i.ot 

 contain the conclusion, I am satisfied. We have here proof that the order when in lines is from the 

 left to the right. The other plate (from the Codex Peresianus) contains a column similar to those in 

 the four plates of the Manuscript Troano, bnt here the repeated day (Been) is the last of one of the years 

 as in the Dresden Codex. 



