Amatlacuilol (MH575r)

Unlike the autonomous-era screen-fold books, this book is bound in the middle and has a cover. Early writing was also hieroglyphic, whereas this writing suggests alphabetic script rather than glyphs. So, Spanish colonial influence is evident.

Stephen Houston, in an online lecture in April 2023, also said that when the practice and result of writing is indicated in Mayan hieroglyphs is it not legible. However, some Nahua glyphs for tlacuilolli and icuilolli (writing/painting) on what may be screen-folded manuscripts do seem to show us simple glyphs about writing, speech, or paintings, the latter seemingly indicating flowers. A couple of these additional examples also appear below.

See the glyphs for Amapouhqui and Temachti, which are so much like this one, and yet they refer to occupations. If this were an occupation, one might expect to see the final "l" dropped off, like the occupation tlacuilo. Karttunen shows that tlacuilo should have a glottal stop at the end, tlacuiloh. She also notes the existence of of alternate terms, tlacuiloqui and tlacuiloani. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary.