San Pedro (CST26)
This painting of the simplex glyph for the name of the Christian saint, San Pedro (St. Peter), shows a frontal view of a large vertical key with a European-style crown on top. The key is an iconographic shortcut for naming San Pedro. It is believed that Jesus Christ gave the keys of heaven to San Pedro.
Stephanie Wood
For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021). Glyphs of saints are known, some with more Nahua influence than is visible here. See below.
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
llaves, iconografía cristiana y Católica, nombres de santos, nombres de hombres
San Pedro
Stephanie Wood
Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 26, page dated 1559. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
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The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
