Madrid Codex
The Madrid Codex (also called the Tro-Cortesianus Codex) is a Pre-Columbian codex of the Maya civilization. It is one of only 4 surviving original Pre-Hispanic Maya books.
The Madrid Codex deals with horoscopes and astrological tables and is the product of eight different scribes.
It is in Madrid, where it may have been sent back to the Royal Court by Hernán Cortés.
Maya books were destroyed in bulk by the Conquistadors and priests after the Spanish conquest, famously all those in Yucatan were ordered destroyed by Bishop Diego de Landa in July of 1562.
The other two long surviving texts are the Dresden Codex and the Peresianus Codex (Paris Codex). The fourth known surviving Maya book, the stub. You can help BambooWeb by .
