[1111] Humboldt was one of the earliest to describe some of these manuscripts in connection with his Atlas, pl. xiii.
[1112] Cf. Catal. of the Phillipps Coll., no. 404. An original colored copy of the Antiquities of Mexico, given by Kingsborough to Phillipps, was offered of late years by Quaritch at £70-£100; it was published at £175. The usual colored copies sell now for about £40-£60; the uncolored for about £30-£35. It is usually stated that two copies were printed on vellum (British Museum, Bodleian), and ten on large paper, which were given to crowned heads, except one, which was given to Obadiah Rich. Squier, in the London Athenæum, Dec. 13, 1856 (Allibone, p. 1033), drew attention to the omission of the last signature of the Hist. Chichimeca in vol. ix.
[1113] Rich, Bibl. Amer. Nova, ii. 233; Gentleman’s Mag., May, 1837, which varies in some particulars. Cf. for other details Sabin’s Dictionary, ix. 485; De Rosny in the Rev. Orient et Amér., xii. 387. R. A. Wilson (New Conquest of Mexico, p. 68) gives the violent skeptical view of the material.
[1114] Sabin, ix., no. 37,800.
[1115] Léon de Rosny (Doc. écrits de l’Antiq. Amér., p. 71) speaks of those in the Museo Archæológico at Madrid.
[1116] Hist. Nueva España.
[1117] Pilgrimes, vol. iii. (1625). It is also included in Thevenot’s Coll. de Voyages (1696), vol. ii., in a translation. Clavigero (i. 23) calls this copy faulty. See also Kircher’s Œdipus Ægypticus; Humboldt’s plates, xiii., lviii., lix., with his text, in which he quotes Du Palin’s Study of Hieroglyphics, vol. i. See the account in Bancroft, ii. 241.
[1118] Prescott, i. 106. He thinks that a copy mentioned in Spineto’s Lectures on the Elements of Hieroglyphics, and then in the Escurial, may perhaps be the original. Humboldt calls it a copy.
[1119] Humboldt placed some tribute-rolls in the Berlin library, and gave an account of them. See his pl. xxxvi.
[1120] Cf. references in Bancroft’s Native Races, ii. 529. The “Explicacion” of the MS. is given in Kingsborough’s volume v., and an “interpretation” in vol. vi.