tlachtli (Mdz31r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This multicolored painting shows the simplex glyph for the noun tlachtli (ball court).
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
Syntax:
Writing Features:
Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Xitlali Torres
Shapes and Perspectives:
Keywords:
capital letter I shape, balls, courts, pelotas, canchas, games juegos
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
tlach(tli), ball court, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachtli
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:
la cancha de pelota
Spanish Translation, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.
Image Source, Rights:
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).