coztic (Mdz44r)

coztic (Mdz44r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This circle painted yellow is an iconographic example for the noun coztic (yellow, a color name and an adjective).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
adjective
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Colors: 
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

coztic, yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 44 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 98 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)