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Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya chronicles and the study of the Maya calendar, in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century editions.
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Texts
Mayan Nomenclature — Charles P. BowditchCharles P. Bowditch’s short essay, privately printed at Cambridge in 1906, on the names of the Maya periods of time, arguing from the Books of Chilan Balam that the period of 360 days was called a tun and that of twenty tuns a katun, and that no period called an “ahau katun” is attested there.The Maya Chronicles — Daniel G. BrintonDaniel G. Brinton’s 1882 edition of six Yucatec Maya historical records, five chronicles of the katuns from the Books of Chilan Balam of Mani, Tizimin and Chumayel and Nakuk Pech’s account of the Spanish conquest at Chac Xulub Chen, each in the Maya with his English translation and notes, with an introduction on the Maya language, numerals and calendar and a Maya–English vocabulary.