TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Page. | |||
| Preface | iii | ||
| Results of my investigations of the Manuscript Troano | v | ||
| Table of Contents | xi | ||
| List of Illustrations | xiii | ||
| Introduction by Dr. D. G. Brinton | xvii | ||
| The graphic system and ancient records of the Mayas | xvii | ||
| 1. Introductory | xvii | ||
| 2. Descriptions by Spanish writers | xix | ||
| 3. References from native sources | xxvii | ||
| 4. The existing Codices | xxx | ||
| 5. Efforts at interpretation | xxxiv | ||
| Chapter | I. — | A Manuscript and its Characters | 1 |
| II. — | The Maya Calendar | 5 | |
| III. — | Explanation of Figures and Characters on Plates XX-XXIII of the Manuscript Troano, and 25 - 28 of the Dresden Codex | 59 | |
| IV. — | Suggestions as to the Probable Meaning of some of the figureson the other plates | 93 | |
| Part First of the Manuscript | 93 | ||
| Part Second of the Manuscript | 111 | ||
| V. — | Symbols, Pictographs, and other Figures which cannot be properly classed as Written Characters | 125 | |
| VI. — | The Written Characters of the Manuscript | 136 | |
| The direction in which they are read | 136 | ||
| The order in which the parts of compound characters are to be taken | 140 | ||
| VII. — | Illustrations of the Day Columns and numbers in the first part of the Manuscript | 162 | |
| VIII. — | A Discussion of Dates, with special reference to those of the Perez Manuscript | 187 | |
| The Maya Manuscript | 188 | ||
| Maya | 188 | ||
| Translation | 189 | ||
| IX. — | Inscriptions on the Palenque Tablet | 198 | |
| Appendices | 209 | ||
| Appendix | No. 1. — | Extracts from the "Relacion de Cosas de Yucatan" of Diego de Landa, in relation to the festivals of the supplementary or closing days of the year, XXXV-XXXVII. (Pp. 210 - 226.) | 209 |
| No. 2. — | Quotation from an article by Señior Melgar | 216 | |
| No. 3. — | Translation of Landa's description of the festivals held in the different months of the year. Relacion, pp. 240-310 | 217 | |
| No. 4. — | Mode of Building Houses among the Yucatecs — Landa | 228 | |
| No. 5. — | Manner of Baptism in Yucatan — Landa | 229 | |
| Original | 229 | ||
| Translation | 231 | ||
| Index | 235 | ||
