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Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices |
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| Author
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Thomas Cyrus
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| Category
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Science
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| Language
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English
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| Published
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1888
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| Notes
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Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
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| Extract
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"In considering this, our attention is attracted by the position of the four
blank pages, three of which are together, the fourth alone. It might be expected
that the separate blank page began or concluded the second piece and was purposely
left blank, because in the folding of the whole it would have lain outside and
thus been exposed to injury; the other three would be expected at the end of the
first piece. The former, as is easily seen, was quite possible, but the latter
was not, unless we assume that even at the time Aglio took his copy the original
order had been entirely disturbed by cutting and stitching together again. The
four blank pages show no trace of ever having contained writing; the red brown
spots which appear on them are to be found also on the sides that contain writing.
Perhaps, therefore, those three continuous pages indicate a section in the representation;
perhaps it was intended to fill them later on; in a similar way also page three
has been left unfinished,
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