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What is the Dresden Codex?
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Final page of the Dresden Codex depicting the Mayan version of the flooding at the end of the world.
http://probaway.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/kingsboroughp74_.jpg
The Dresden Codex is one of only four remaining Maya books that survive today. Spanish missionaries during the conquest in the New World practiced ecclesiastical book censoring and the burning of books. Anxious to convert the Mayans, missionaries destroyed nearly all of their books apparently because they thought it might harm the Indians religion indoctrination, since at that time they were at the beginning stage of their conversion. From that cultural carnage only four Mayan books remain in the world today. The Dresden Codex is one of them and is owned since 1744 by the former Royal Library at Dresden, in Germany, a place known today as Sächsische Landesbibliothek.
Here is a link of the complete Förstemann copied version of the Dresden Codex in PDF format
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/dresden_fors_schele_all.pdf
This was an ancient Maya accordion folded book written in Maya hieroglyphic script, on Mesoamerican paper, which was made from the wild fig tree. This paper was named huun by the Mayas and was produced by professional scribes. It was developed around the 5th century A.C. and was more durable and offered better writing surface than papyrus. The codices have been named for the cities in which they eventually settled down. Thus, the Dresden codex is considered the most important of the four that survive; they are the Dresden Codex, Grolier Codex, Madrid Codex and the Paris Codex.
Fragment of the Dresden Codex.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/maya/dresden-codex-fragment.jpg
The Dresden Codex is one of only four remaining Maya books that survive today. Spanish missionaries during the conquest in the New World practiced ecclesiastical book censoring and the burning of books. Anxious to convert the Mayans, missionaries destroyed nearly all of their books apparently because they thought it might harm the Indians religion indoctrination, since at that time they were at the beginning stage of their conversion. From that cultural carnage only four Mayan books remain in the world today. The Dresden Codex is one of them and is owned since 1744 by the former Royal Library at Dresden, in Germany, a place known today as Sächsische Landesbibliothek.
Here is a link of the complete Förstemann copied version of the Dresden Codex in PDF format
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/dresden_fors_schele_all.pdf
This was an ancient Maya accordion folded book written in Maya hieroglyphic script, on Mesoamerican paper, which was made from the wild fig tree. This paper was named huun by the Mayas and was produced by professional scribes. It was developed around the 5th century A.C. and was more durable and offered better writing surface than papyrus. The codices have been named for the cities in which they eventually settled down. Thus, the Dresden codex is considered the most important of the four that survive; they are the Dresden Codex, Grolier Codex, Madrid Codex and the Paris Codex.
Fragment of the Dresden Codex.
source(s):
http://www.lawbuzz.com/cherished_rights/freedom_speech/books_burn.htm
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/marhenke.html
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/dresden.html
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/dresden_fors_schele_all.pdf
http://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/2012-%E2%80%94-doomsday-the-mayan-...
http://www.lawbuzz.com/cherished_rights/freedom_speech/books_burn.htm
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/marhenke.html
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/dresden.html
http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/dresden_fors_schele_all.pdf
http://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/2012-%E2%80%94-doomsday-the-mayan-...
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