peso (Chav1)

peso (Chav1)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for a single peso coin is named in the Nahuatl text as a peso (a loanword that was taken into the Nahuatl language from Spanish). It is a circle filled in with a dark gray or black ink or watercolor.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss refers to pesos in the plural because this single peso was just one of "epoualli ō çe pesos" (sixty-one pesos).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

...ce poss.

Gloss Normalization: 

...ce pesos

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Chavero, Codex (Chav)
Date of Manuscript: 

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Money, Coins, Prices
Tributes, Taxation, Service
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Keywords: 

monedas, coins

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons: 
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

peso, a peso, a unit of money, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/peso

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un peso

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=1

Image Source, Rights: 

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

50.5 pesos (TV1r)

caxtolli pesos (Chav1)

nahui pesos (Chav1)