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...Amy George-Hirons When we consider questions of alphabetic, cultural, and visual literacy in colonial Mesoamerica, an analysis of the way in which the producers of the Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua appropriated European astronomical texts and images from medieval reportorios demonstrates much about...

... are Latin, not Spanish. These Latin verses are esoteric knowledge that “you will understand” as a reader, a mystery being shared through the medium of script. As Miram and Bricker (1994) have demonstrated, the source of these Latin verses is the late sixteenth-­century reportorio de los tiempos...