toztli (Mdz46r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This simplex glyph doubles as the place name Toztlan and serves here for the word toztli, an Amazon yellow parrot. The bird is shown in profile, facing to the viewer's right. It has its wings raised as though in flight or about to fly. It is drawn in black ink and painted entirely in yellow.
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Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
toz(tli), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 46 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 102 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)
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