is the highest quality and the most content-rich codex of the 4 Maya manuscripts preserved worldwide
originated in the later post-classical period of Maya culture (ca. 1300-1521) on the Yucatán peninsula
consists of 39 sheets of bark bast originally screenfolded, which are exhibited in 2 strips with a total length of 3.56 m between glass panes in the Treasury of the SLUB Corty Gallery
contains ritual and divination calendars, astronomical and meteorological tables, ritual instructions and numerous depictions of gods
is a key document for the deciphering of the Mayan hieroglyphs and for the study of astronomy and time calculation of the Maya
was acquired in 1739 by the librarian Johann Christian Götze in Vienna and was recognized as a Mayan manuscript in the 19th century
has been facsimiled several times and is the subject of countless publications
