Editing Maya codices (section)

==Paris Codex==
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The Paris Codex (also or formerly the Codex Peresianus) contains prophecies for tuns and katuns (see [[Maya Calendar]]), as well as a Maya zodiac, and is thus, in both respects, akin to the Books of [[Chilam Balam]]. The codex first appeared in 1832 as an acquisition of France's ''Bibliothèque Impériale'' (later the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]], or National Library) in [[Paris]]. Three years later the first reproduction drawing of it was prepared for [[Lord Kingsborough]], by his [[Lombardy|Lombardian]] artist [[Agostino Aglio]]. The original drawing is now lost, but a copy survives among some of Kingsborough's unpublished [[galley proof|proof sheet]]s, held in collection at the [[Newberry Library]], [[Chicago]].<ref>See [http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/paris.html "The Paris Codex"], in Marhenke (2003), {{page needed|date=September 2012}}.</ref>

Although occasionally referred to over the next quarter-century, its permanent rediscovery is attributed to the French orientalist [[:fr:Léon_de_Rosny|Léon de Rosny]], who in 1859 recovered the codex from a basket of old papers sequestered in a chimney corner at the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]] where it had lain discarded and apparently forgotten.<ref>Coe (1992, p. 101), Sharer & Traxler (2006, p. 127)</ref> As a result, it is in very poor condition. It was found wrapped in a paper with the word ''Pérez'' written on it, possibly a reference to the Jose Pérez who had published two brief descriptions of the then-anonymous codex in 1859.<ref name="Stuart 1992, p.20">Stuart (1992, p. 20)</ref> De Rosny initially gave it the name ''Codex Peresianus'' ("Codex Pérez") after its identifying wrapper, but in due course the codex would be more generally known as the Paris Codex.<ref name="Stuart 1992, p.20"/> De Rosny published a facsimile edition of the codex in 1864.<ref>Coe (1992, p. 101)</ref> It remains in the possession of the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]].