Whose Hieroglyphica Mexicana?
VALUED at £1000-1500 in a June 29 sale at Bonhams is a bound manuscript entitled ‘Hieroglyphica Mexicana, or, an Introduction into the Origin, Nature and Meaning of the Ancient Paintings by the Semi-Civilized Nations of America, with Sketches of their Languages, History, Arts & Sciences’.
Written in a neat hand to recto only of 294pp, the manuscript includes a Woodbury-type portrait of t…