A Maya manuscript <Codex Merida>
By: translated with notes and introduction by Robert B. Stacy-Judd, A.I.A. Foreword by T. A. Willard. With complete facsimile.
Contributors: Stacy-Judd, Robert Benjamin, 1884- ed and tr.; Castilla, Pedro, tr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Philosophical research society
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Manuscripts, Maya -- Facsimiles.; Mayan languages -- Writing.; Mayas -- Antiquities.; Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Copias de esqrituras, de pizarras antes de la conquista.
Notes: "Reference works": p. 66.
Full-page illustrations numbered as plates.
The manuscript was discovered when part of the cathedral at Merida was recently demolished. It comprises 12 pages and has title: Copias de esqrituras, de pizarras antes de la conquista. El dibujo que empleaban los Indios mayas despues de la conquista con traducion, legal echa en Merida, desde hoy 19 de myo de 1830.
"Maya story of the Spanish invasion of Yucatan, Pedro Castilla's interpretation in the Maya language of plates IX and X" with his "translation of Maya intrepretation into English line for line": p. 52-59 (Maya and English on opposite pages)