The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript, edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni, is a scholarly essay collection bringing together specialists in Maya epigraphy, iconography and astronomy to reexamine one of the four surviving pre-Columbian Maya codices. Its authority rests on the recognized standing of its contributors and on close collaborative analysis of the manuscript's astronomical tables and ritual almanacs. As an edited volume assembled specifically to advance new interpretive approaches, individual chapters represent the specific contributor's own current scholarly position on genuinely difficult and only partially deciphered material, so readers should expect and can find within the volume itself points where contributors' interpretations of particular almanacs differ from one another.
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The Madrid Codex, edited by Gabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni and published by the University Press of Colorado, is a scholarly essay collection by recognized specialists in Maya epigraphy, iconography and astronomy, treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship. NotesEdited scholarly volume presenting new approaches to the ancient Maya Madrid Codex.
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AuthorGabrielle Vail and Anthony Aveni (eds.)
PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
Publication Year2004
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Textual Witnesses, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Custodians & Museums, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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