Editing Madrid Codex (Maya) (section)

==Discovery==
[[File:Madrid Codex 6.JPG|thumb|right|Rain-bringing snakes, Madrid Codex]]
The codex was discovered in Spain in the 1860s, and was divided into two parts of differing sizes that were found in different locations.<ref name="SharerTraxler06p127">Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 127.</ref> The codex receives its alternate name of the Tro-Cortesianus Codex after the two parts that were separately discovered.<ref name="FAMSI"/> Early [[Mayanist]] scholar [[Léon de Rosny]] realised that both fragments were part of the same book.<ref>Sharer and Traxler 2006, pp. 126, 135.</ref> The larger fragment, the Troano Codex, was published with an erroneous translation in 1869–1870 by French scholar [[Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg]],<ref>Sharer and Traxler 2006, pp. 127, 135. Noguez et al. 2009, p. 20.</ref> who found it in the possession of Juan de Tro y Ortolano in Madrid in 1866 and first identified it as a Maya book.<ref>Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 135. Vékony 1999. Noguez et al. 2009, p. 20.</ref> Ownership of the Troano Codex passed to the [[National Archaeological Museum of Spain|Museo Arqueológico Nacional]] ("National Archaeological Museum") in 1888.<ref name="Noguez&c09p20"/>

Madrid resident Juan de Palacios tried to sell the smaller fragment, the Cortesianus Codex, in 1867.<ref>Sharer and Traxler 2006, p. 127. Noguez et al. 2009, p. 20.</ref> The Museo Arqueológico Nacional acquired the Cortesianus Codex from book-collector José Ignacio Miró in 1872. Miró claimed to have recently purchased the codex in [[Extremadura]].<ref>Noguez et al. 2009, pp. 20–21.</ref> Extremadura is the province from which [[Francisco de Montejo]] and many of his [[conquistador]]s came,<ref name="SharerTraxler06p127"/> as did [[Hernán Cortés]], the conqueror of Mexico.<ref name="Noguez&c09p21">Noguez et al. 2009, p. 21.</ref> One of these conquistadors possibly brought the codex to Spain;<ref name="SharerTraxler06p127"/> the director of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional named the Cortesianus Codex after Hernán Cortés, supposing that he himself had brought the codex to Spain.<ref name="Noguez&c09p21"/>