nochtli (Mdz15v)

nochtli (Mdz15v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the cactus fruit, nochtli, doubles for for the place name, Xoconochco. The fruit sits atop a part of the prickly pear cactus plant. The fruit is bulb-shaped and has a blossom at the top. The cactus plant is green with spines of red and white. The fruit is green, and the blossom above it is red and yellow.

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: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

noch(tli), cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 15 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 41 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).