Manuscrit troano : études sur le système graphique et la langue des Mayas
A nineteenth-century French study by the abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, published in Paris in 1869 by the Imprimerie impériale, presenting facsimile pages of the Maya Codex Troano for scholars of Mayan writing and language. The pictures are rows of black glyph blocks and seated figures on cream paper with orange-brown rules, showing dense hieroglyphic panels arranged in horizontal bands. A designer could draw on the strong modular grid of the glyph cells and the stiff, linear figure drawing as a model for ancient-looking pictographic patterns.
