español (Osu7v)
This detail from the Codex Osuna (folio 7 verso, image 17) is included here as an iconographic example of a Spaniard, ideally for the purpose of making comparisons with hieroglyphs. This Spaniard is fully dressed in dark clothing. He is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His left arm is raised, and he is pointing with his index finger. A red and white speech scroll appears as though it came from his mouth.
Stephanie Wood
The group of Spaniards visible in the contextualizing image is referred to in the Nahuatl text as “yn castilteca” (Castillians, reflecting another term taking into Nahuatl from Spanish). There were never huge numbers of Spaniards inside Indigenous communities in the Spanish colonial period. They would make visits in the sixteenth century with the purpose of introducing changes to landholding, local governance, and tribute (tax) collection, for example. But they preferred to live in Mexico City or in their own provincial towns.
Stephanie Wood
español
1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
españoles, hombres, oficiales coloniales, tierras
español, a Spaniard (male), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/espanol
el español
Stephanie Wood
Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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