Essays of an AmericanistIEthnologic and archaeologicIIMythology and folk loreIIIGraphic systems and literatureIVLinguistic . «^^A/* »-y -y>_ rvv» wt*-* tevi/iA, -vw<«-<x<»- tfUrXV^f Fig. I.—Fac Simile of Landas Manuscript. The alphabet which he inserts has been engraved andprinted several times, but nowhere with the fidelity desirablefor so important a monument in American archseolog5^ Forthat reason I insert a photographic reproduction of it fromthe original MS. in the library of the Academia de la His-toria of Madrid. A comparison of this with the alphabet as given in Brasseurs e
Essays of an AmericanistIEthnologic and archaeologicIIMythology and folk loreIIIGraphic systems and literatureIVLinguistic . «^^A/* »-y -y>_ rvv» wt*-* tevi/iA, -vw<«-<x<»- tfUrXV^f Fig. I.—Fac Simile of Landas Manuscript. The alphabet which he inserts has been engraved andprinted several times, but nowhere with the fidelity desirablefor so important a monument in American archseolog5^ Forthat reason I insert a photographic reproduction of it fromthe original MS. in the library of the Academia de la His-toria of Madrid. A comparison of this with the alphabet as given in Brasseurs edition of Landa discloses several variations of im- CRITICISMS ON LANDAS. ALPHABET. 243 portaiice. Thus the Abbe places the first form of the letter<r horizontally mstead of upright. Again in the MS., thetwo figures for the letter U stand, the first at the end of oneline, the second at the beginning of the next. From theirstrong analogy with the sign of the sky at night, I am ofopinion that they belong together as members of one com-posite sign, not separately as Brasseiir gives them. Both in it and in the in
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