chilli (Mdz37r)

chilli (Mdz37r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This glyphic element has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Chilacachapan. The chil- stem comes from chilli. The visual is a single red chile pepper, with a green cap and stem, lying on its side.

Description, 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

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

chil(li), chile pepper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

chile pepper

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la pimienta de las Indias

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Chilacachapan (Mdz37r)

chilli (CST25)