On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing
Collection — huntington box: 13 - folder 1
Identifier: 9084
Scope and content
Corrected draft of an address given "before this most illustrious assembly." Handwritten in pen with pencil corrections. Discusses the pictography and hieroglyphic writing of the Mexican and Central American Indian tribes. It also mentions several codices, such as the Codex Dresdensis Maya and the Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3773, authors, and the use of astronomy in the Mayan calendar.
Dates
- 1902.
Creator
- Seler, Eduard, 1849-1922. (Person)
- Huntington Free Library (Former owner, Organization)
Extent
8 pages. (8 pages.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Provenance: Huntington Free Library.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
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2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)