Tototlan (Mdz48r)

Tototlan (Mdz48r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a green and yellow painting of the simplex glyph for the place name, Tototlan. It shows a profile view of the full body of a bird with green feathers of two tones. It is facing toward the viewer's right, and its beak is open. Its feet are yellow.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Birds
Feathers
Mouth/Beak Open
Colors: 
green (dark)
green (light)
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

-tlan (locative suffix), place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan
Tototlan, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototlan
toto(tl), bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 48 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 106 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)