copalli (Mdz37r)
This green and white painting of the noun copalli (incense) shows a frontal view of a horizontal, striped, two-tone green leaf tied at both ends and wrapping around a granular substance, which must be the incense. We do not have a Nahuatl-language gloss clarifying that this is a glyph for copalli, but the Spanish gloss says "copale."
Stephanie Wood
pellas de
copale
pellas de copale (i.e., copalli)
Stephanie Wood
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
copal, incienso, recipientes para copal
copal(li), incense, copal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/copalli
Codex Mendoza, folio 37 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 84 of 188.
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)