The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest

A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles. 4to. xviii 124 pp. Illus. with 69 b/w plates photos and drawings. Not until 1859 was the Paris Codex consisting of twenty-two screen-folded pages of hieroglyphs painted figures and calendrical calculations -all reproduced in this volume- rediscovered at the Bibliothque Nationale of Paris. In this his groundbreaking study and first comprehensive treatment of the codex in nearly eight decades Bruce Love takes an ethnographic approach to the codex one of only four codices known to have survived from the pre-Columbian era (the others are the Dresden Madrid and Grolier) analyzing its use by Maya priests as a handbook of divination prophecy and history.