xomolli (Mdz41r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This simplex glyph for the place name, Cuauhxomolco, is duplicated here as a logographic sign for xomoll) (corner). The corner has been merged with the sign for tree (cuauhuitl) in the place name.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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Writing Features:
Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Shapes and Perspectives:
Keywords:
corner, turned, bent, esquina, rincón, torcido
Glyph or Iconographic Image:
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
xomol(li), corner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xomolli
Spanish Translation, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Image Source:
Codex Mendoza, folio 41 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 92 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).
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