chiltecpin (Mdz42r)

chiltecpin (Mdz42r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element is a cluster of five small red peppers with green stems. It has been carved from the compound glyph for the place name Chiltecpintlan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Wikipedia says about these small red chilies: "glabriusculum is a variety of Capsicum annuum that is native to southern North America and northern South America. Common names include chiltepin, Indian pepper, chiltepe, and chile tepin, as well as turkey, bird's eye, or simply bird peppers, due to their consumption and spread by wild birds." It is similar to the chile pequín, but this latter chile is more elongated and comes from a somewhat more humid environment, according to the Chasing Chiles blogspot.

Added 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

Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Keywords: 

chiles, peppers

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

chiltecpin, tiny red peppers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiltecpin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el chiltipiquín

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 42 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 94 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: 

Chiltecpintlan (Mdz42r)