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William Edmond Gates (December 8, 1863 – April 24, 1940) [1] was an American Mayanist.Most of his research focused around Mayan language hieroglyphs.He also collected Mesoamerican manuscripts. [2]
During the 19th century, the word 'codex' became popular to designate any pictorial manuscript in the Mesoamerican tradition. In reality, pre-Columbian manuscripts are, strictly speaking, not codices, since the strict librarian usage of the word denotes manuscript books made of vellum, papyrus and other materials besides paper, that have been sewn on one side. [1]
A major publication project by scholars of Mesoamerican ethnohistory was brought to fruition in the 1970s: volume 14 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources: Part Three is devoted to Middle American pictorial manuscripts, including numerous reproductions of single pages of important pictorials. This volume ...
The Codex Cospi (or Codex Bologna) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pictorial manuscript, included in the Borgia Group. It is currently located in the library of the University of Bologna. Like other manuscripts in the Codex Borgia, the Codex Cospi is believed to derive from the Puebla-Tlaxcala region but the exact origin of the manuscript is ...
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The Andreas text-type has also been called a subtype of the Majority Text in Revelation, which is divided into the Koine form of Revelation and the Andreas type of Revelation. [2] Manuscripts belonging to the Andreas text-type are primarily found in manuscript of Andreas' commentary although there exists Andreas manuscripts which do not contain ...
The first page of the Codex Fejérváry-Mayer.. The Borgia Group is the scholarly designation of a number of mostly pre-Columbian documents from central Mexico.In 1830–1831, they were first published in their entirety as colored lithographs of copies made by an Italian artist, Agustino Aglio, in volumes 2 and 3 of Lord Kingsborough's monumental work titled Antiquities of Mexico.
This is a category that will allow the reader to easily locate all articles dealing with Mesoamerican codices, either pre-Hispanic or post-Conquest.Most of these manuscripts are not strictly codices by the normal definition (a manuscript not made in paper and sewn in one side), but the term is now traditionally applied to them.