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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTING, 



TAKEN FROM THE 



BORGIAN MANUSCRIPT OF VELETRI, 



AND 



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 

 hieroglyphics, and in all 5x13x4=206 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 half-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 repeat ed, 



