148 
HIEROGLYPHIC PAINTINGS 
TAKEN FROM THE 
MEXICAN MANUSCRIPT, 
PRESERVED IN THE 
IMPERIAL LIBRARY AT VIENNA, 
Nos. 1, 2, and 3. 
PLATES XLVI, XLVII, & XLVIll, 
Of all the' Mexican manuscripts, which exist in 
' the different libraries of Europe, that of Vienna 
is the oldest known. It is mentioned by Lam- 
beccius and Nessel * in their catalogues ; and 
Robertson has engraved the outlines of a frag- 
ment of it. I examined it during my last abode 
at Vienna in 1811, and am indebted for the 
coloured copy of the pages exhibited on these 
three plates to Mr. von Hammer, a distinguished 
naturalist, whose different works, and particu- 
* Nessel, Catal. Bibliolli. Caesareae, tom. vi, p. 163. See 
above, vol. xiii. page 180. 
