patlanalli (Mdz40r)

patlanalli (Mdz40r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph doubles as the place name Patlanallan and is included here as an entry for the noun "flight" (patlanalli). The visual is a two-tone green bird with its wings extended, looking up, and apparently flying straight up. Its legs and feet are gray and its beak is yellow. Its eye is white.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Feathers
Mouth/Beak Open
Colors: 
gray
green (dark)
green (light)
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

patlanal(li), flight, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patlanalli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 40 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 90 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: 

Patlan (MH640r)