A Study of the Manuscript Troano/Contents

by Cyrus Thomas

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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			Page.
Preface			iii
	Results of my investigations of the Manuscript Troano		v
Table of Contents			xi
List of Illustrations			xiii
Introduction by Dr. D. G. Brinton			xvii
	The graphic system and ancient records of the Mayas		xvii
		1. Introductory	xvii
		2. Descriptions by Spanish writers	xix
		3. References from native sources	xxvii
		4. The existing Codices	xxx
		5. Efforts at interpretation	xxxiv
Chapter	I. —	A Manuscript and its Characters	1
	II. —	The Maya Calendar	5
	III. —	Explanation of Figures and Characters on Plates XX-XXIII of the Manuscript Troano, and 25 - 28 of the Dresden Codex	59
	IV. —	Suggestions as to the Probable Meaning of some of the figureson the other plates	93
		Part First of the Manuscript	93
		Part Second of the Manuscript	111
	V. —	Symbols, Pictographs, and other Figures which cannot be properly classed as Written Characters	125
	VI. —	The Written Characters of the Manuscript	136
		The direction in which they are read	136
		The order in which the parts of compound characters are to be taken	140
	VII. —	Illustrations of the Day Columns and numbers in the first part of the Manuscript	162
	VIII. —	A Discussion of Dates, with special reference to those of the Perez Manuscript	187
		The Maya Manuscript	188
		Maya	188
		Translation	189
	IX. —	Inscriptions on the Palenque Tablet	198
Appendices			209
Appendix	No. 1. —	Extracts from the "Relacion de Cosas de Yucatan" of Diego de Landa, in relation to the festivals of the supplementary or closing days of the year, XXXV-XXXVII. (Pp. 210 - 226.)	209
	No. 2. —	Quotation from an article by Señior Melgar	216
	No. 3. —	Translation of Landa's description of the festivals held in the different months of the year. Relacion, pp. 240-310	217
	No. 4. —	Mode of Building Houses among the Yucatecs — Landa	228
	No. 5. —	Manner of Baptism in Yucatan — Landa	229
		Original	229
		Translation	231
		Index	235