Codex Peresianus

The Paris Codex ( Codex Peresianus ) is one of the four surviving manuscripts of the Maya culture . It is kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and is an almanac for prophecies .

It was found in a rubbish bin in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in 1859 . It measures 1.45 meters, has 22 pages and is the worst preserved of the four manuscripts in Maya script . The lettering and painting can only be seen in the middle of the pages.

The last pages describe 13 constellations of the zodiac cycle . Some pages contain information on the 52-year cycle, where the 365-day Haab calendar and the 260-day Tzolkin calendar return to their common starting point. Since the calendar cycles refer to the period 731 to 787, the Paris Codex could also be a copy from the classical period . It is dated between 1300 and 1500.

literature

• Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann : Commentary on the Paris Mayan manuscript. Gdansk 1903
• Günter Zimmermann : The hieroglyphs of the Maya manuscripts. Hamburg, Cram de Gruyter 1956

Web links

Commons : Paris Codex  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The complete Paris Code in pictures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nikolai Grube : The Dresden Maya Calendar: The Complete Codex . Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 2012, ISBN 978-345-1333323 , p. 21