144 



FRAGMENT 



OF A 



HIER O GLYPHICAL MANUSCRIPT 



PRESERVED IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY 



AT 



DRESDEN* 



PLATE XLV. 



According to the principle that monuments ex- 

 plain each other ; and that, to study profoundly 

 the history of a nation, we should have under 

 our eyes the whole of the works, to which it has 

 affixed its character ; I have determined to en- 

 grave on plates 45, 46, 47, and 48, fragments 

 taken from the Mexican manuscripts of Dresden 

 and Vienna. The first of these manuscripts was 

 altogether unknown to me, when the printing of 

 these sheets was begun. It is not easy to give 

 a complete notice of the hieroglyphical paint- 

 ings, that have escaped the destruction, with 



