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Description: Image of the page from Diego de Landa's 16thC. manuscript, Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán, in which he describes the famous "de Landa alphabet". This "alphabet" shows the letters of the Spanish language and the Maya hieroglyphics symbols which were supposed to correspond with them (according to de Landa's interpretation).
Title: De Landa alphabet
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