Los códices mayas. El Códice Trocortesiano del Museo de América de Madrid

  1. Andrés Serrano
  2. Elena González
  3. Carmen Martín de Hijas
  4. Marián del Egido
  5. Pedro Pablo Pérez
  6. Juan Antonio Herráez
  7. Guillermo Enríquez de Salamanca
  8. María Teresa Gil
Book:
La Ciencia y el Arte: ciencias experimentales y conservación del patrimonio histórico

Publisher: Ministerio de Cultura

Year of publication: 2011

Volume Title: La Ciencia y el Arte III. Ciencias experimentales y conservación del patrimonio

Volume: 3

Pages: 147-158

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

This work includes: • The process of manufacture of some raw materials used in the making of Maya codices. • The assembly existing in the Museum of America up to 1981. • The taqing out of the codex from the glass cabinet and the conditions of preservation of it. • The study and treatment of consolidation applied to this work in 1981. • The description of the actual glass cabinet. • The analysis of the materials. • The analysis of the last two assemblies. • The first impressions of the actual codex conditions.