Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Miniature Altar (041.00.00)

Miniature Altar
Miniature “altar” with three spherical supports and painted glyphs. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 200–600. Incised and red-painted marble. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (041.00.00)

Finding the Past (042.01.01)

Finding the Past
Antonio de León y Gama (1735–1802). Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras en la plaza principal de México. Mexico: F. de ZúΖiga y Ontiveros, 1792. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (042.01.01)

Maya Dresden Codex (043.00.00)

Maya Dresden Codex
Codex Dresdensis: Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden (Mscr. Dresd. R 310)/ Kommentar, Helmut Deckert, zur Geschichte der Dresdner Maya-Handschrift; Ferdinand Anders, die Dresdner Maya-Handschrift kodikologische Beschreibung. Graz, Austria: Akadem. Druck-u Verlagsanstalt, 1975. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (043.00.00)

Coiled Stone Rattlesnake With Day Sign (side) (044.00.00)

Coiled Stone Rattlesnake With Day Sign
Coiled stone rattlesnake with day sign. Central Mexican Highlands. Aztec culture, AD 1400–1521. Gray volcanic basalt. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (044.00.00)

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Positions of the Sun, Moon, and Planets (045.00.03)

Positions of the Sun, Moon, and Planets
Petrus Apianus Apianus (1492–1552) and Gemma Frisius (1508–1555). Cosmographia, Petri Apiani . . . additis euisdem argumenti libellis ipsius Gemmaa Frisii. . . . Antwerp: Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1564. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (045.00.03)

Transition to the Gregorian Calendar (046.00.02)

Transition to the Gregorian Calendar
Johannes Mueller (1436–1476). [“Regiomontanus”] in Calendarium (Calendar). Nuremberg: 1474. Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (046.00.03)

Calendar Wheel (047.00.03)

Calendar Wheel
Mariano Fernández Echeverría y Veytia. Aztec Calendar Wheel from Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la América septentrional (History of the Beginnings of the People Who Settled North America). Early nineteenth-century facsimile manuscript. Peter Force Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (047.00.03)

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