centzontli (Mdz26r)

centzontli (Mdz26r)
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a rendition of the graphic representation for the number 400 (tzontli). It is a black-line drawing of what looks like a tree, upright, pointed, and spiky. Its central axis is thicker than its branches, which get shorter as they rise from bottom to top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There are various shapes given by different tlacuiloqueh (writers/painters) for tzontli. See below, right.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cada una destas como es[-]
pigas / significa / quatro
çientas--

Gloss Normalization:

cada una de estas, como espigas, significa cuatrocientas

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

Colors:

black

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

pointed (see also spiky)

spiky

vertical, upright

Keywords:

números

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

centzon(tli), 400, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centzontli-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

cuatrocientos, 400

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 26 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 62 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Historical Contextualizing Image: