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Preview Codex Tro-Cortesianus.

The Codex Tro-Cortesianus (or Codex Madrid) is a codex manuscript Mayan region of Campeche ( ^XII - XV ^century ). It consists of 56 sheets of tracing paper "amate" folded like an accordion, dimensions: 12.5 x 22.6 cm, length: 6.82 m. He is currently at the Museo de Amrica in Madrid.

In the mid-nineteenth ^century, the Codex Madrid was split into two for financial reasons basely, by unscrupulous collectors. It wanted to sell both parts of this manuscript both in the British Museum in London and the Imperial Library in Paris. It is ultimately the Museum of the Americas in Madrid, which manages to bring the two sides in 1888. The Madrid Codex is the best preserved and longest of three Mayan codices with its 112 pages (70 pages for codex Troano and 42 pages for codex Cortesianus).

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According to tradition, the codex Cortesianus have belonged to the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, conqueror of the Aztecs in 1521.
In the ^sixteenth century , the Spanish Bishop Diego de Landa burned boasted "every book of witchcraft" of the Maya.
Maya hieroglyphs have not yet been fully deciphered. The main difficulty is that the same syllable can be represented in different ways and the same text can have up to 3 different meanings.