[1][TN-7] _Manuscrit dit Mexicain No. 2._--The Bureau of Ethnology has had the good fortune to obtain a copy of Duruy's photographic reproduction of this Manuscript, of which, according to Leclerc (Bibliotheca Americana), only ten copies were issued, though Brasseur in his Bibliotheque Mexico-Guatemalienne (p. 95) affirms that the edition consisted of fifty copies. The full title is as follows: "_Manuscrit dit Mexicain No. 2 de la Bibliotheque Imperiale Photographie (sans reduction). Par ordre de S. E. M. Duruy, Ministre de l'Instruction publique, President de la Commission scientifique du Mexique._ Paris, 1864." Rosny has given a _fac-simile_ copy from the two plates here referred to in Plate XVI of his _Essai sur le Dechiffrement de l'Ecriture Hieratique_. [8] An illustration can be seen, on pp. 36-40, Study Manuscript Troano. [9] Study Manuscript Troano, p. 86. [10] Possibly each serpent represents one indication of thirteen years, but the proper answer to this question is not important in the present investigation. [11] In order to accommodate the list to the paging it is divided into sections, the second section to follow to the right of the first; the third to the right of the second, and so on to the last, as though extended continuously to the right. Those numbered 1 would then form one continuous transverse line, as would also those numbered 2,3, 4 and 5 respectively. [12] In the original, _Deer_, certainly an error. [13] In the original, _Deer_. PLATE 44 OF THE FEJERVARY CODEX. As a connecting link between the particular topic now under discussion and the consideration of the symbols of the cardinal points, I wish to refer to one plate of the Fejervary Codex, to wit, Plate 44, a _fac-simile_ of which is presented in Plate III: A little careful inspection of this plate will suffice to convince the reader that it was gotten up upon the same plan and for the same purpose as the "Tableau des Bacab," or plate copied from the Codex Cortesianus, which is reproduced in our Plate I. The sacred tree or cross, which is represented but once in that plate, and that in the central area, is here shown four times--once in each of the four outer spaces opposite the four sides of the inner area. It is true we do not find here the intermediate ring (or quadrilateral), of clays, but these are not wanting, for the four groups, corresponding with those on the four sides of the quadrilateral, are here found at the four corners wedged in between the colored loops, one group of five at each corner. The chief marked resemblance is to be found in the outer looped line, in which the day characters are connected by rows of dots. But here the lines and loops, although almost precisely in the form, and relation, to each other as in the plate of the Cortesian Codex, are variously and brightly colored, and the rows of dots are inclosed by lateral lines.