copalli (Mdz37r)

copalli (Mdz37r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This green and white painting of the noun copalli (incense) shows a frontal view of a horizontal, striped, two-tone green leaf tied at both ends and wrapping around a granular substance, which must be the incense. We do not have a Nahuatl-language gloss clarifying that this is a glyph for copalli, but the Spanish gloss says "copale."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pellas de
copale

Gloss Normalization: 

pellas de copale (i.e., copalli)

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

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
horizontal
striped
tied, bound, or bundled
Keywords: 

copal, incienso, recipientes para copal

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

copal(li), incense, copal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/copalli

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: 

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)