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This volume*, which is very little known, 

 and from which we have taken the fragments 

 represented in plates 55 and 56, belonged for- 

 merly to le Tellier, archbishop of Rheims ; but 

 we know not by what means it came into his 

 hands. In its outward form it resembles the 

 manuscript preserved in the library of the Va- 

 tican, No. 3738. Each hieroglyphic figure is 

 accompanied by several explanations, written, as 

 it appears, at different times, in Mexican as well 

 as in Spanish. It is probable that these notes, 

 which throw great light on the history, the 

 chronology, and the religious rites of the Az- 

 tecks, were composed by a Spanish monk at 

 Mexico, from the dictation of some of the na- 

 tives. They are more instructive than those we 

 find in the Raccolta di Mendoza y and the Mexi- 

 can names are much more correctly written. 



The Codex Mex. Tellerianus contains a copy 

 of three different works ; the first of which is a 

 ritual almanac ; the second, a book of astrology; 

 and the third, a Mexican history from the year 

 5 tochtli, or 1197, to the year 4 calli, or 1561. 

 We shall give a succinct idea of these three ma- 

 nuscripts. 



* Manuscript of 96 pages in folio, under the title of Ge- 

 roglyphicos de que usavan los Mexicanos. (Cod. Teller. Re- 

 mens. 14, Reg. 613.) 



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