In order to illustrate this we will run through the lowest line of each series, taking them in the order of the pages.[296-1]
These are as follows:
| Plate 46: | VIII | Cib. | VII | Cimi. | X | Cib. | V | Kan. |
| Plate 47: | VII | Ahau. | VI | Oc. | IX | Ahau. | IV | Lamat. |
| Plate 48: | VI | Kan. | V | Ix. | VIII | Kan. | III | Eb. |
| Plate 49: | V | Lamat. | IV | Ezanab. | VII | Lamat. | II | Cib. |
| Plate 50: | IV | Eb. | III | Ik. | VI | Eb. | I | Ahau. |
By counting on the calendar (our [Table II]), as heretofore explained, the reader will observe that the interval from 8 Cib to 7 Cimi is 4 months and 10 days; from 7 Cimi to 10 Cib is 12 months and 10 days; from 10 Cib to 5 Kan is 8 days; from 5 Kan to 7 Ahau is 11 months and 16 days; from 7 Ahau to 6 Oc, 4 months and 10 days; from 6 Oc to 9 Ahau, 12 months and 10 days; from 9 Ahau to 4 Lamat, 8 days; from 4 Lamat to 6 Kan, 11 months and 16 days, and so on to the end of the series on Plate 50. Referring to the codex the reader will observe at the bottom of each plate and directly under—that is to say, in the same vertical lines as the day columns—two lines of red numerals. It is impossible to determine these in Kingsborough’s copy (except on Plate 50), but they can readily be made out on the photographed plates. (See the copy of Plate 50, given in [Fig. 362].) Those on a single plate are as follows:
| { | XI, | IV, | XII, | 0, |
| XVI, | X, | X, | VIII. |
The 0 here represents a red, diamond shaped symbol.
If the upper line represents months and the lower line days, these numbers will indicate the intervals between the columns and are properly placed. For example, the XI and XVI signify 11 months and 16 days, the interval between the last column of the preceding plate and the first column of the plate on which they stand; the IV and X, the interval of 4 months and 10 days between the first and second columns; XII and X, the interval of 12 months and 10 days between the second and third columns; and 0, VIII, the interval of 8 days between the third and fourth columns. It is apparent from this that the red, diamond shaped symbol represented by 0 over the VIII denotes a cipher or nought, a conclusion reached independently by Förstemann.
If this supposition as to the arrangement of the series and the signification of these numbers be correct, it is apparent that the plates are to be taken in the order in which they are paged, that is, from left to right, as the others so far noticed, an inference borne out by another fact now to be mentioned.