tonatiuh cualo (TR40v)

tonatiuh cualo (TR40v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a multicolored painting of the compound glyph for the noun, tonatiuh cualo (solar eclipse).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Writing Features: 
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

eclipses, suns, soles, cielo, sky, stars, estrellas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tonatiuh cualo, for an eclipse to occur, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tonatiuh-cualo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un eclipse de sol

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 40 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f106.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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