michin (Mdz46r)

michin (Mdz46r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This fish is shown in profile, facing to the viewer's right. It is painted a light purple color, with the belly left white/natural. Its tail is bifurcated, and it has fins on the side, top, and bottom. Its eye is open. This fish has scales, while not all do in this collection (see, for example, the one from folio 31, below right).

Description, 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Colors: 
purple (light)/lavender
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
facing right
horizontal
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

mich(in), fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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)

See Also: 

michin (Mdz31r)