tlecuiltia (TR41v)

tlecuiltia (TR41v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful painting is included here as an iconographic example that we are labeling as the verb tlecuiltia, based on the Spanish-language text telling about how people went out at night with torches to set their fields on fire. There had been a terrible problem of mice.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

vuo tanto rraton en la provin
çia de mexico, que se comian
todas las senbradas. y ansi sali
an de noche. con lunbres a har
darlos senbrados.

Gloss Normalization:

Hubo tanto ratón den la provincia de México que se comian todas las sembradas. Y así salían de noche con lumbres a ardar los sembrados.

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

torches, antorchas, ocotes, tlahuilicotl, quemar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlecuiltia, to set on fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecuiltia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

prender fuego

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 41 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f108.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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