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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTING* 



TAKEN FROM THE 



BORGI AN MANUSCRIPT OF VELETRI, 



SIGNS OF THE DAYS OF THE MEXICAN ALMANAC. 



PLATE XXVII. 



The twenty signs of the days have been selected 



from the first pages of the manuscript of Veletri, 



each of which contains five rows of. thirteen 



zoo 

 hieroglyphics, and in all 5 x 13x4=^5 days, or 



a year of twenty half lunations of the ritual 



almanac. These two hundred and sixty signs 



are so disposed, that four double pages are 



filled with the reduction of the periods of thirteen 



days, or halt-decades of the civil almanac, of 



which fifty-two form a ritual year. It is worthy 



of remark also, that, in order to facilitate the 



reading of these pictures, the author has repeated, 



