The Paris Codex: Handbook for a Maya Priest

by Bruce Love

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.

124 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1994