tlachtli (Mdz8r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is a red, green, blue, and yellow painting of the simplex glyph for the noun tlachtli (ball court).
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Syntax:
Writing Features:
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Keywords:
capital letter I shape, balls, courts, pelotas, canchas, games juegos
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:
la cancha de pelota
Spanish Translation, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 13 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 25, 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)