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{{Short description|One of three surviving pre-Columbian Maya books}}
{{Infobox manuscript
<!----------Name---------->| name = ''Madrid Codex''
| location = [[Museo de América]]
<!----------Image---------->| image = File:Museo de America Madrid Codex.jpg
| width = 300px
| caption = Copy of the Madrid Codex on display at the [[Museum of the Americas (Madrid)|Museo de América]] in Madrid
<!----------General---------->| Also known as = ''Tro-Cortesianus Codex'', ''Troano Codex''
| Type = codex
| Date = Postclassic period (1250–1450)
| Place of origin = western [[Yucatán]], [[Mexico]]
| Language(s) = [[Yucatecan languages|Yucatec Maya]]
<!----------Form and content---------->| Material = [[amate|bark paper]]<ref name="Noguez&c09p16"/>
| Size = {{convert|23.2|by|12.2|cm|in}}
| Format = screenfold book
| Condition = 
| Script = [[Maya script]]
| Contents = ritual almanacs and horoscopes used to help Mayan priests in the performance of their ceremonies.
| Additions = 
| Discovered = 1866 in [[Madrid]]
}}

The '''Madrid Codex''' (also known as the '''Tro-Cortesianus Codex''' or the '''Troano Codex''')<ref name="GarciaSaiz10p54">García Saíz et al. 2010, p. 54.</ref> is one of four surviving pre-Columbian [[Maya codices|Maya books]] dating to the Postclassic period of [[Mesoamerican chronology]] (''circa'' 900–1521 AD).<ref>Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 126.</ref> The Madrid Codex was produced in western [[Yucatán]], [[Mexico]], today is held by the [[Museum of the Americas (Madrid)|Museo de América]] in Madrid and is considered to be the most important piece in its collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Madrid (Tro-Cortesian) Codex |url=https://www.cultura.gob.es/museodeamerica/en/coleccion/america-prehispanica/c-dice-trocortesiano.html |website=Museo de América}}</ref> However, the original is not on display due to its fragility; an accurate reproduction is displayed in its stead.<ref name="GarciaSaiz10p54"/> At one point in time the codex was split into two pieces, given the names "Codex Troano" and "Codex Cortesianus". In the 1880s, [[:fr:Léon_de_Rosny|Leon de Rosny]], an [[Ethnology|ethnologist]], realised that the two pieces belonged together, and helped combine them into a single text. This text was subsequently brought to Madrid, and given the name "Madrid Codex", which remains its most common name today.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paxton |first=M |title=The Cosmos of the Yucatec Maya: Cycles and Steps from the Madrid Codex |publisher=University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque |year=2001}}</ref>