cozotl (Mdz38r)

cozotl (Mdz38r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for cozotl) (yellow parrot) also serves as the place name for Cozohuipilecan. The yellow parrot feathers decorate a tunic, which appears to be considered a huipilli, judging by the place name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Here, we are isolating the meaning of yellow parrot, as represented by the yellow feathers, but the full tunic huipilli--another atomic component, if you will--shows, too.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
yellow or golden
Keywords: 

parrots, feathers, plumas

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

cozo(tl), a yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozotl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

yellow parrot

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el loro amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 38 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 86 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: 

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz38r)

Cozohuipilecan (Mdz13r)

Cozotlan (Mdz20r)