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Chilam Balam (or Chilan Balam), Books of. Native chronicles of Yucatec villages, written in roman script shortly after the Conquest. The most considerable publication of such of these as have been preserved is in Brinton, Maya Chronicles. A facsimile reproduction of The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel forms Vol. v, of the Anthropological Publications of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1913). For analysis and bibliography of the subject, see Tozzer .
Chronicle of Chac Xulub Chen. See Nakuk Pech, below.
Codex. Three Maya codices, in native picture-writing, have been preserved. (1) Codex Dresdensis, Royal Library, Dresden, is reproduced in Kingsborough, iii, and in two editions by Förstemann (1880, 1892). Förstemann, Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden forms PaPM, iv, 2 (Cambridge, 1906); with which cf. numerous artt. in 28 BBE. (2) Codex Tro-Cortesianus, Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid, comprises the Codex Troano, published by Brasseur de Bourbourg [f]; and the Codex Cortesianus, published by Léon de Rosny (1883) and again by Rada y Delgado (1892); the two parts are from a single original, hence the present name of the codex. (3) Codex Peresianus, Librairie Nationale, Paris, published by Léon de Rosny (1887, in colors; 1888, black and white).
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Cortés (Cortez). See Bibliography to Chapters II-III.