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The Dresden Codex is a Maya book, which was believed to be the oldest surviving book written in the Americas, dating to the 11th or 12th century. However, in September 2018 it was proven that the Maya Codex of Mexico , previously known as the Grolier Codex, is, in fact, older by about a century. [2]
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.
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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.
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
23 ago 2016 · For more than a hundred years, experts have reconstructed the equations the Maya would have used, based partly on the Dresden Codex. What they landed on is a complex series of patches and...
21 dic 2012 · The Dresden Codex was named in the tradition of all other codices: not for its point of origin, but for its final resting place. It lives in the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany, under...
In 1886, Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann (1822-1906), director of the Royal Public Library in Dresden, published his findings on the Maya's numerical and calendar system and their astronomical calculations in his "Erläuterungen" on the Dresden Codex.
