Berlin. The learned Jesuit Fabrega, who is 
often cited in the works • of Mr. Zoega, and 
whose manuscripts relating to the Azteck anti- 
quities were communicated to me by the Cheva- 
lier Borgia, nephew to the Cardinal of that name, 
supposes, that tlie archives of Simancas in Spain 
contain also some of these hierogjyphical paint- 
ings, which Robertson has so aptly denominated 
picture wrkings^. 
The collection preserved at the Escurial has 
been examined by Mr. Waddilove, chaplain to 
the English embassy at Madrid when Lord 
Grantham was ambassador. It has the form of 
a book in folio ; which may lead us to suspect, 
that it is only a copy of a Mexican laaMScript, 
for the originals I have examined are all of the 
size of volumes in quarto. The objects repre- 
sented seem to prove, that the collection of the 
Escurial, like those of Italy and Vienna, atxi 
either astrological books, or real rituals, which 
point out the religious eeremohies prescribed for 
particular days of the month. At the bottom of 
each page is an explanation in Spanish^ which 
has been added since the conquest. 
The collection of Bologna is deposited in the 
library of the Institute of Sciences of that city. 
We are unacquainted with its origin ; but we 
read on the first page, that this painting, which 
* Roberttion’s History of America, 1802, vol. 3, p. 403, 
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