Note 906 — Chapter III

Hist. des Nations Civilisées (i. pp. xxxi, lxxvi, etc.; cf. Müller’s Chips, i. 317, 320, 323). Brasseur in the same place describes his own collection; and it may be further followed in his Bibl. Mex.-Guat., and in the Pinart Catalogue. Dr. Brinton says that we owe much for the preservation during late years of Maya MSS. to Don Juan Pio Perez, and that the best existing collection of them is that of Canon Crescencio Carrillo y Ancona. José F. Ramirez (see Vol. II. p. 398) is another recent Mexican collector, and his MSS. have been in one place and another in the market of late years. Quaritch’s recent catalogues reveal a number of them, including his own MS. Catálogo de Colecciones (Jan., 1888, no. 171), and some of his unpublished notes on Prescott, not included in those “notas y ecclarecimientos” appended to Navarro’s translation of the Conquest of Mexico (Catal., 1885, no. 28,502). The several publications of Léon de Rosny point us to scattered specimens. In his Doc. écrits de l’Antiquité Amér. he gives the fac-simile of a colored Aztec map. A MS. in the collection of the Corps Legislatif, in Paris, and that of the Codex Indiæ Meridionalis are figured in his Essai sur le déchiffrement, etc. (pl. ix, x). In the Archives de la Soc. Amér. de France, n. s., vol. i., etc., we find plates of the Mappe Tlotzin, and a paper of Madier de Montjau, “sur quelques manuscrits figuratifs de l’Ancien Méxique.” Cf. also Anales del Museo, viii.