Calendar Gallery

Codex Borgia. Ritual and divinatory mesoamerican

Codex Borgia. Ritual and divinatory mesoamerican manuscript written in Nahuatl before of the conquest of Mexico. It is related with the aztec calendar Tonalpohualli. Copy od representation of the god Tezcatlipoca, Lord of Days, War, Heaven and Earth, antagonist of Quetzalcoatl. Aztec art. Litography. VATICAN CITY. Vatican Library. Proc: MEXICO. PUEBLA

© Iberfoto/Mary Evans

Carved stone pillar of Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Guatemala

Carved stone pillar or stela (known as Stela E) that recorded the Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala (Mesoamerica). They were erected to mark the passing of a katun (roughly 20 years). The hieroglyphics have enabled archaeologists to establish the main dates of Mayan history. Date: circa early 1930s

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Illuminated calendar for August 1846

Calendar for August with figures of Joel and St. Bartholomew, quote from Thessalonians, disciples, woman with wheat, birds, foliage and castles. From an illuminated Book of Hours of the Duke the Anjou. 1380. Chromolithograph in colors and gilt from Henry Noel Humphreys The Illuminated Calendar and Home Diary for 1846, Longmon, London, 1846

© Florilegius