coyolli (MH522r)

coyolli (MH522r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element coyolli (bell) has been extracted from the compound for the personal name Coltototl. This bell is vertical, with a loop at the top for hanging, a horizontal line in the middle, and a vertical slit at the bottom for the sound to emerge from the clapper. (The clapper is not visible.)

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
Keywords: 

bells, cascabeles, pinjanes, campanillas, campanas, metales, suenan

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book Notes: 

These two copper bells probably came from the P’urépecha of what is now Michoacan. They were found in the Paquimé region of the Teochichimeca. Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sala 11. Photo by S. Wood, 30 April 2025.

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

coyol(li), a jingle bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la campanilla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 522r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=123&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

See Also: 

Coltototl (MH522r)

coyolli (Mdz44r)

coyolli (Mdz2r)

coyolli (Mdz13v)

coyolli (Mdz41r)

coyolli (Mdz40r)

coyolli (CQ)