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Vase with Lords in the Mouths of Serpents
Vase with lords in the mouths of serpents. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 600–900. Polychromed ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (033.07.00)
Vessel with Teotihuacán-Maya War and Sacrifice Themes
Tall black-background vase with Teotihuacan-Maya war and sacrifice themes. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 600–900. Polychrome ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (040.01.00)
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Vase with Palace Scene
Tall vase with regal dressing scene in palace. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 600–900. Polychrome ceramic. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (040.00.00)
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A Pre-Contact Codex
Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1992. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (025.00.03)
First Romance Language Grammar
Antonio de Nebrija. (1441–1522). Gramática de la lengua castellana (Grammar of the Castilian language). Salamanca: 1492. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (026.00.03)
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Recording History
Stone Artifact with Incised Hieroglyphs
Stone torus with incised hieroglyphs. Guatemalan Lowlands. Maya, AD 489. Limestone. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (034.00.00)
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Carved Mirror-Back With Hieroglyphs
Carved mirror back with hieroglyphs. Guatemalan Lowlands. Early Classic Maya, AD 200–600. Greenish slate with red cinnabar. K4829. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (034.01.00)
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Tortuguero Box
The wooden offering container of Aj K'ax B'ahlam of Tortuguero. Mexico. Tabasco. Maya, AD 681. Wood (sapodilla) and red hematite. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (038.00.00)
Maya City of Palenque
Ricardo Almendáriz (fl. ca. 1787). Coleccion de estampas copiadas de las figuras originales . . . del Pueblo Palenque (Collection of drawings copied from the original figures . . . of the village of Palenque)[1787]. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (036.00.03)
First Report on the Maya Ruins of Palenque
Antonio del Rio (fl. 1786–1789). Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered near Palenque. . . . London: Henry Berthoud, and Suttaby, Evance and Fox, 1822. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (037.00.03)
Family History of a Spanish Merchant
Genealogy and Family History of Merchant Alférez Ignacio López de Herrera and wife . . . (1703–1739), Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (039.00.04)
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The Heavens and Time
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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