Since 177 and 178 include 6 months each, while 148 equals 5 months, the entire length of the period is 405 months, which are divided into 69 periods.
It was necessary to discuss all this before I could introduce the entire series itself. In the following table I have set down the numbers and added to them the differences between each number and the preceding one (to the first, the interval between it and the zero point), just as they are given in the Manuscript. An asterisk is added to show that the number has been corrected by me and is wrong in the Manuscript, owing to a mistake either in writing or in computation. The three columns correspond to the three divisions of 3986 days, and the two horizontal lines divide the periods of 1742, 1034 and 1210 days.
| Page 53a: | 24. | 4163* | 177 | 47. | 8149 | 177 | ||
| 1. | 177 | 177 | 25. | 4340 | 177 | 48. | 8326 | 177 |
| 3. | 502 | 148 | Page 58a: | 50. | 8651 | 177* | ||
| 4. | 679* | 177 | 27. | 4665 | 177 | Page 55b: | ||
| 5. | 856 | 177 | 28. | 4842 | 177 | 51. | 8828 | 177 |
| 6. | 1034* | 178* | 29. | 5020 | 178* | 52. | 9006 | 178* |
| Page 54a: | 30. | 5197 | 177 | 53. | 9183 | 177 | ||
| 7. | 1211 | 177 | Page 51b: | 54. | 9360 | 177 | ||
| 8. | 1388 | 177 | 31. | 5374 | 177 | 55. | 9537 | 177 |
| 9. | 1565 | 177 | 32. | 5551 | 177 | 56. | 9714 | 177 |
| 10. | 1742* | 177 | 33. | 5728 | 177 | |||
| 11. | 1919 | 177 | 34. | 5905 | 177 | 57. | 9891 | 177 |
| 12. | 2096* | 177 | 35. | 6082 | 177 | 58. | 10068* | 177* |
| 13. | 2244* | 148 | 36. | 6230 | 148 | Page 56b: | ||
| Page 55a: | Page 52b: | 59. | 10216 | 148* | ||||
| 14. | 24227 | 178 | 37. | 6408 | 178* | 60. | 10394 | 178* |
| 15. | 2599* | 177 | 38. | 6585 | 177 | 61. | 10571 | 177 |
| 16. | 2776 | 177 | 39. | 6762 | 177 | 62. | 10748 | 177 |
| 17. | 2953 | 177 | 40. | 6939 | 177 | Page 57b: | ||
| 18. | 3130 | 177 | Page 53b: | 63. | 10925 | 177 | ||
| Page 56a: | 41. | 7116 | 177 | 64. | 11102 | 177 | ||
| 19. | 3278 | 148 | 42. | 7264 | 148 | 65. | 11250 | 148 |
| 20. | 3455 | 177 | 43. | 7441 | 177 | 66. | 11427 | 177 |
| 21. | 3632 | 177 | 44. | 7618 | 177 | 67. | 11604 | 177 |
| 22. | 3809 | 177 | 45. | 7795 | 177 | Page 58b: | ||
| Page 57a: | Page 54b: | 68. | 11781 | 177 | ||||
| 23. | 3986 | 177* | 46. | 7972 | 177 | 69. | 11958 | 177 |
No one acquainted with the cursoriness of the Maya Manuscripts will be surprised that among 138 numbers I have declared 21 to be wrong. Furthermore the 21 errors are lessened by the fact that six of them are really only one, for in all 6 cases where the difference is 178, the scribe has overlooked this and written down the usual 177, although the numbers and the days of the series very correctly indicate 178. Again the three errors in groups 58 and 59 are also only one, for the author had confused
the differences 177 and 148 and had, therefore, to write down 10,039 instead of 10,068. In group 4 the error is merely the omission of a line meaning 5. The scribe must have been at the same time the computer and therefore the actual author of the Manuscript.
Furthermore I must call attention to the regular position of the differences 178 and 148. In the three periods of 1742 days the 178 always occupies the 6th place and in the periods of 1034 it is always in the 4th place. This difference appears, therefore, in groups 6, 14, 29, 37, 52 and 60, i.e., 8, 15, 8, 15 and 8 groups apart; but it is entirely lacking in the periods of 1210 days. And in all nine sections the 148 occupies the third place, i.e., directly in front of the pictures, which will be discussed immediately, therefore in groups 3, 13, 19, 26, 36, 42, 49, 59, 65, i.e., at intervals of 10, 6, 7, 10, 6, 7, 10 and 6 groups. But I must point out an error fraught with consequences. Groups 22 and 23 quite correctly have the difference 177, but in this single instance the scribe has written down 178 and hence has computed the three days belonging to it as VII Ix, VIII Men and IX Cib instead of VI Ben, VII Ix and VIII Men, and from here on to the close he is always one day in advance, so that on page 58 group 69 ends with the days X Cimi, XI Manik and XII Lamat, while it ought to have ended with IX Chicchan, X Cimi and XI Manik.
So much for the series. Vid. on this series my paper "Zwei Hieroglyphenreihen in der Dresdener Mayahandschrift" (Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1905, numbers 2 and 3). Let us turn next to the ten pictures which are inserted in this series, three of which appear at the end of each period of 2920 days as on pages 46-50. Let us attempt to advance a step further in the darkness which still surrounds us here.
One of these pictures, the 8th, which is on page 56b, is in the wrong place, owing to the error in computation in Groups 58 and 59 to which I called attention above. It belongs not before but after group 59, the first on page 56b. This is indicated in the Manuscript itself. For in group 59 the two hieroglyphs, usually placed above each group, are missing and we find instead of them the sign resembling a snail, which is
doubtless a very much emphasized zero (compare my "Erläuterungen," page 29), which indicates that the section designated by a picture closes with this group.