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 "corpus": "maya-codices",
 "seat": "EA-CORPORA-21/01",
 "title": "The Maya Codices — Dresden (the Codex itself, World Digital Library), Paris (Rosny's Codex Peresianus, 1887–88) and Madrid (Rosny's Codex Cortesianus, 1883, with Brasseur's Manuscrit Troano, 1869)",
 "edition": "The Dresden Codex (Codex Dresdensis), Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Mscr.Dresd.R.310, the whole codex photographed, as published by the World Digital Library (LoC item 2021667917, wdl_11621); Léon de Rosny, Codex Peresianus: manuscrit hiératique des anciens Indiens de l'Amérique centrale conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, publié en couleurs (Paris, 1887; this the 1888 reprint) — the Paris Codex in photographic plates; The Madrid Codex (Tro-Cortesianus), Museo de América, Madrid: Léon de Rosny's Codex Cortesianus (Paris, 1883; black-and-white photographs, 85 copies) and Brasseur de Bourbourg's Manuscrit Troano (Paris, 1869; chromolithographs), as compiled by FAMSI (madrid_rosny_bb.pdf)",
 "language": "Classic Maya hieroglyphic (myn)",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the codices are pre-Columbian (Postclassic). The Dresden Codex (SLUB, Mscr.Dresd.R.310) as digitized for the World Digital Library: Library of Congress, World Digital Library collection (the Library states it is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions; credit line: [Original Source citation], World Digital Library). Rosny's Codex Peresianus (Paris, 1887; reprint 1888) on the Internet Archive; Rosny's Codex Cortesianus (Paris, 1883) and Brasseur de Bourbourg's Manuscrit Troano (Paris, 1869) as compiled by FAMSI (Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies) — the photographs and chromolithographs are public domain in the United States (published before 1931).",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
 "origin": {
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    "source": "Library of Congress (World Digital Library)",
    "url": "https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/gdcwdl/wd/l_/11/62/1/wdl_11621/wdl_11621.pdf"
   },
   {
    "source": "Internet Archive",
    "identifier": "codexperesianusm00rosn",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/codexperesianusm00rosn",
    "files": [
     "codexperesianusm00rosn.pdf",
     "codexperesianusm00rosn_djvu.txt"
    ]
   },
   {
    "source": "FAMSI, Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies",
    "url": "http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/madrid_rosny_bb.pdf"
   }
  ],
  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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 "works": {
  "count": 3,
  "units": "one text file per work",
  "list": [
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    "slug": "dresden-codex-wdl",
    "work": "The Dresden Codex (Codex Dresdensis), Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Mscr.Dresd.R.310, the whole codex photographed, as published by the World Digital Library (LoC item 2021667917, wdl_11621)",
    "text": null,
    "originals": [
     "original/loc/wdl_11621.pdf"
    ],
    "class": "codex"
   },
   {
    "slug": "codex-peresianus-rosny-1888",
    "work": "Léon de Rosny, Codex Peresianus: manuscrit hiératique des anciens Indiens de l'Amérique centrale conservé à la Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, publié en couleurs (Paris, 1887; this the 1888 reprint) — the Paris Codex in photographic plates",
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     "original/codexperesianusm00rosn/codexperesianusm00rosn.pdf",
     "original/codexperesianusm00rosn/codexperesianusm00rosn_djvu.txt"
    ],
    "class": "codex",
    "lines": 5781
   },
   {
    "slug": "madrid-codex-rosny-brasseur",
    "work": "The Madrid Codex (Tro-Cortesianus), Museo de América, Madrid: Léon de Rosny's Codex Cortesianus (Paris, 1883; black-and-white photographs, 85 copies) and Brasseur de Bourbourg's Manuscrit Troano (Paris, 1869; chromolithographs), as compiled by FAMSI (madrid_rosny_bb.pdf)",
    "text": null,
    "originals": [
     "original/famsi/madrid_rosny_bb.pdf"
    ],
    "class": "codex"
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 "normalization": "Files as fetched. Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt); the scan under original/ is the witness. Library of Congress and FAMSI PDFs are image files without a text layer: the page is the only reading.",
 "scope": "The three Maya hieroglyphic codices whose authenticity is settled, each as a whole: Dresden in the library's own photographs, Paris and Madrid in their nineteenth-century facsimiles. The Grolier (Maya Codex of Mexico) is not seated: its open images are modern photographs under copyright: QUEUED. Förstemann's chromolithograph of Dresden (1880; 1892) and Kingsborough's Aglio copy (Antiquities of Mexico, 1831) are public domain and not seated in this pass; the codex itself is the witness. Drawings and transcriptions by modern scholars (Schele, Love, the Villacorta brothers) are in copyright and are not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Rosny 1888, running head — 'CODEX PERESIANUS.' (the Dresden and Madrid files are images without a text layer; the codices are read from the page)"
 ],
 "loci_not_found": [],
 "lines_total": 5781,
 "why_seated": "The only books to survive from the Classic and Postclassic Maya: almanacs, the Venus tables, the eclipse tables and the New Year ceremonies, written in the script whose decipherment the twentieth century achieved. The archive's calendar and cosmology lines (the seven, the stars) meet a calendar that counted beyond the Long Count.",
 "spine": "Maya Codices",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}