[1091] Manuscrit Troano Etudes sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas (Paris, 1869-70)—the first volume containing a fac-simile of the Codex in seventy plates, with Brasseur’s explications and partial interpretation. In the second volume there is a translation of Gabriél de Saint Bonaventure’s Grammaire Maya, a “Chrestomathie” of Maya extracts, and a Maya lexicon of more than 10,000 words. Brasseur published at the same time (1869) in the Mémoires de la Soc. d’Ethnographie a Lettre à M. Léon de Rosny sur la découverte de documents relatifs à la haute antiquité américaine, et sur le déchiffrement et l’interprétation de l’écriture phonétique et figurative de la langue Maya (Paris, 1869). He explained his application of Landa’s alphabet in the introduction to the MS. Troano, i. p. 36. Brasseur later confessed he had begun at the wrong end of the MS. (Bib. Mex.-Guat., introd.). The pebble-shape form of the characters induced Brasseur to call them calculiform; and Julien Duchateau adopted the term in his paper “Sur l’écriture calculiforme des Mayas” in the Annuaire de la Soc. Amér. (Paris, 1874), iii. p. 31.
[1092] L’écriture hiératique, and Archives de la Soc. Am. de France, n. s., ii. 35.
[1093] Ancient Phonetic Alphabets of Yucatan (N. Y., 1870), p. 7.
[1094] It is the development of a paper given at the Nancy session of the Congrès des Américanistes (1875). Landa’s alphabet with the variations make 262 of the 700 signs which Rosny catalogues. He printed his “Nouvelles Recherches pour l’interpretation des caractères de l’Amérique Centrale” in the Archives, etc., iii. 118. There is a paper on Rosny’s studies by De la Rada in the Compte-rendu of the Copenhagen session (p. 355) of the Congrès des Américanistes. Rosny’s Documents écrits de l’antiquité Américaine (Paris, 1882), from the Mémoires de la Société d’Ethnographie (1881), covers his researches in Spain and Portugal for material illustrative of the pre-Columbian history of America. Cf. also his “Les sources de l’histoire anté columbienne du nouveau monde,” in the Mémoires de la Soc. d’Ethnographie (1877). For the titles in full of Rosny’s linguistic studies, see Pilling’s Proof-sheets, p. 663.
[1095] Anthropol. Review, May, 1864; Memoirs of the Anthropol. Soc., i.
[1096] Memoirs, etc., ii. 298.
[1097] Memoirs, etc., 1870, iii. 288; Trans. Anthrop. Inst. Gt. Britain.
[1098] Introd. to Cyrus Thomas’s MS. Troano.
[1099] Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., n. s., i. 250.
[1100] Actes de la Soc. philologique, March, 1870. Cf. Revue de Philologie, i. 380; Recherches sur le Codex Troano (Paris, 1876); Actes, etc., March, 1878; Baldwin’s Anc. America, App.