Maya Codices
<p><b >Maya codices</b> (singular <i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex" title="Codex" >codex</a></i>) are folding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book" title="Book" >books</a> stemming from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian" title="Pre-Columbian" class="mw-redirect" >pre-Columbian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization" title="Maya civilization" >Maya civilization</a>, written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_hieroglyphics" title="Maya hieroglyphics" class="mw-redirect" >Maya hieroglyphic script</a> on Mesoamerican bark cloth, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or <i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amate" title="Amate" >amate</a></i> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_insipida" title="Ficus insipida" >Ficus glabrata</a>). Paper, generally known by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl" title="Nahuatl" >Nahuatl</a> word <i ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatl" title="Amatl" class="mw-redirect" >amatl</a></i>, was named by the Mayas <i >huun</i>. The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of deities such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsured_Maize_God" title="Tonsured Maize God" class="mw-redirect" >Tonsured Maize God</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howler_Monkey_Gods" title="Howler Monkey Gods" >Howler Monkey Gods</a>. The Maya developed their <i >huun</i>-paper around the 5th century,<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> which is roughly the same time that the codex became predominant over the scroll in the Roman world. However, Maya paper was more durable and a better writing surface than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus" >papyrus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices#cite_note-1" >[2]</a></sup> The codices have been named for the cities where they eventually settled. The<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_codex" title="Dresden codex" class="mw-redirect" >Dresden codex</a> is generally considered the most important of the few that survive.</p>
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