Codex Mexicanus caractere hieroglyphi

Codex Laud, p. 09

Skin II. 106. cms. Extending from Folio 6 which it overlaps by 3.5 cms. through Folio 7 to Folio 12 and overlapping folio 13 by 3.3 cms. Skin III. 99.5 cms. Extending from Folio 13 to 18 inclusive. Skin IV. 104 cms. Overlapping Folio 18 by 4 cms., and extending from Folio 18 to 24 inclusive. 2. 1. Section showing method of folding the folios of the Codex. 2. Section showing structure of joint between sheets of skin. There is some evidence, deriving from the calendrical time counts within the document, which leads one to suppose that there were once other skins at either end, but there is now no physical trace of their existence visible to the eye. If they existed they were jointed at the terminal edges of the existing document in the same way as the other skins are joined together at folds in the codex. If these extra sheets were removed it was before the two cover sheets were in place. These have been cemented securely in position on folios 1 and 24 on the D (verso) side. The skin is different from that used in the main body of the codex, thinner, and harder. It overlaps the folios by about 1 mm. on each outer edge. These squares of skin were once covered by fur on the outer side. Only the smallest patches of a very fine dark brown fur remain. One concludes that since the cement used for affixing these pages is the white paste which covers the rest of the codex, they were placed in position in Mexico. Therefore if any portion of the document is missing it was removed in pre-Columbian times. Presumably the fur was intact when the document left Mexico. When it reached the Bodleian Library a great deal of the fur was missing since either Archbishop Laud or his amanuensis inscribed "Liber Guil. Laudi: Archiepi Cant: et Cancellarij Universitat Oxon. 1636." right across the cover on Folio ID. It stops short beside the largest re-