teopan libro (CST35)

teopan libro (CST35)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the simplex glyph for the term teopan libro (church book) shows a red (perhaps leather) bound book with locking mechanisms. The inside paper is a tan color. The companion text conveys that large sheets of paper were to be used to make this book of songs. The contextualizing image shows how three pots of paint (in blue, red, and black) are also present, as they were to be used in making the book. All of the materials for making the book were Castilian. The text actually refers to books (in the plural) that were to be made.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021), especially page 122 (for the Nahuatl transcription) and page 156 (for the English translation).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Sierra/Texupan, Codex (CST)

Date of Manuscript:

1550–1564

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Art, Design, Crafts, etc.

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Paper

Religion (Christian)

Religion (Indigenous Christianity)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

tan

Shapes and Perspectives:

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Mixtec

Keywords:

libros, himnarios, iglesias, religión cristiana, cancioneros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teopan, temple or church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teopan
libro (a loanword from Spanish that entered Nahuatl), book, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/libro

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

cancionero de la iglesia

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 35, page dated 1561. 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.
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

Image Source, Rights:

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.

Historical Contextualizing Image: