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The Dresden Codex is one of four hieroglyphic Maya codices that survived the Spanish Inquisition in the New World. [7] . Three, the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, are named after the city where they were ultimately rediscovered. [7] [8] The fourth is the Grolier Codex, located at the Grolier Club in New York City. [9] .
Der Dresdner Maya-Codex. ist die qualitätvollste und inhaltsreichste der 4 weltweit erhaltenen Maya-Handschriften. entstand in der späteren postklassischen Zeit der Maya-Kultur (ca. 1300-1521) auf der Halbinsel Yucatán.
The Dresden Maya Codex. is the highest quality and the most content-rich codex of the 4 Maya manuscripts preserved worldwide. originated in the later post-classical period of Maya culture (ca. 1300-1521) on the Yucatán peninsula.
Codex Dresdensis. Summary. Only four Mayan manuscripts still exist worldwide, of which the oldest and best preserved is the Dresden Codex, held in the collections of the Saxon State and University Library. The manuscript was purchased for the Dresden court library in 1739 in Vienna, as a "Mexican book."
The Ancient Maya Codices. THE DRESDEN CODEX. We first learn of the Dresden Codex when we hear that Johann Christian Götze, Director of the Royal Library at Dresden, obtained the codex from the private owner in Vienna in 1739. In 1744, Götze gave it to the Royal Library, where it still resides.
Dresden Codex, one of the few collections of pre-Columbian Mayan hieroglyphic texts known to have survived the book burnings by the Spanish clergy during the 16th century (others include the Madrid, Paris, and Grolier codices). It contains astronomical calculations—eclipse-prediction tables, the synodical period of Venus—of exceptional accuracy.
About 85% of the approximately 5,000 surviving text carriers can now be read or at least their content can be interpreted. The Dresden Codex contains 350 different characters, of which 250 have been deciphered so far.
