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HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTING, 
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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 repeated, 
