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Mesoamerican
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Texts
A Primer of Mayan Hieroglyphics — Daniel G. BrintonDaniel G. Brinton’s primer of Maya writing for the University of Pennsylvania (1895): the four codices and the attempts at decipherment, the numeral and calendar system, the gods and figures of the codices, the graphic elements with the signs of the days, months and deities, and specimen texts from the codices and the monuments.Rig Veda Americanus — Daniel G. BrintonDaniel G. Brinton's 1890 bilingual edition of twenty sacred Nahuatl hymns of the ancient Mexicans, from Sahagún's manuscript sources, with Nahuatl text, the manuscript's own Nahuatl gloss, Brinton's English translation and notes, and his closing glossary.Studies in Central American Picture-Writing — Edward S. HoldenEdward S. Holden’s study of the Maya inscriptions of Copan and Palenque, printed in the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (1881): a numbering of the glyphs in Stephens’s plates, a card catalogue of about 1,500 signs, the order of reading, and proposed signs for Huitzilopochtli, Tlaloc and Cukulcan (Quetzalcoatl).