El mal platero no sabe acendrar la plata; déxala revuelta con ceniza; astuto para sacar y hurtar algo de la plata o del oro.
\nEl buen herrero es vivo, hábil, de buen juicio y sentido en sus obras, y suele hender con la tajadera, majar o martillar, y usar de fragua y de fuelles, y de carbones, y cortar el hierro de presto, como si fuese alguna cera. El mal herrero es mentiroso o burlador, perezoso, descuidado, de pocas fuerzas, y hace mal hechas las obras por hacerlas de priesa, y hace la obra falsa, allende de ser prolixo en su oficio.
\nEl lapidario está bien enseñado y examinado en su oficio, buen conocedor de piedras, las cuales para labrarlas quítales la roca, córtalas y las jun[ta]
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"2be40446-1dae-41c9-95f9-50f050406909","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"A bad silversmith does not know how to refine silver: he leaves it mixed up with ashes. He uses his wits to take out and steal a portion of the silver or gold.\n\nA good blacksmith is smart, skillful, uses good sense and deliberation in his works, and often etches with the cutting instrument.[^32] He pounds and hammers; uses the forge, the bellows, and charcoal; and swiftly cuts the iron,[^33] as if it were some kind of wax. A bad blacksmith is a liar or a swindler; he is lazy and careless, has little strength, and produces poorly made works because of his hastiness. And he adulterates his work, in addition to being wasteful in his trade.\n\nThe lapidary is well taught and assessed in his trade. He has a good knowledge of stones, and to carve them, he scrapes away the mineral, cuts them, and subtly joins them \n\n\n[^32]: “And often . . . instrument”: _y suele hender con la tajadera_.\n\n[^33]: “Iron”: _el hierro_. Sahagún uses the noun _hierro_ (iron) as metonymy for metal. Smiths in Mexico only used iron after the Spanish conquistadors brought it. The corresponding Nahuatl paragraph actually describes the coppersmith (_teputzpitzqui_).","html":"A bad silversmith does not know how to refine silver: he leaves it mixed up with ashes. He uses his wits to take out and steal a portion of the silver or gold.
\nA good blacksmith is smart, skillful, uses good sense and deliberation in his works, and often etches with the cutting instrument.1 He pounds and hammers; uses the forge, the bellows, and charcoal; and swiftly cuts the iron,2 as if it were some kind of wax. A bad blacksmith is a liar or a swindler; he is lazy and careless, has little strength, and produces poorly made works because of his hastiness. And he adulterates his work, in addition to being wasteful in his trade.
\nThe lapidary is well taught and assessed in his trade. He has a good knowledge of stones, and to carve them, he scrapes away the mineral, cuts them, and subtly joins them
\n“And often . . . instrument”: y suele hender con la tajadera.↩
“Iron”: el hierro. Sahagún uses the noun hierro (iron) as metonymy for metal. Smiths in Mexico only used iron after the Spanish conquistadors brought it. The corresponding Nahuatl paragraph actually describes the coppersmith (teputzpitzqui).↩
[tlate]cullalia, tlapitza, tlapatia, tlaxaltema
\nIn tlaueliloc teucuitlaoa tlanexaquiani tlanexmoloniani tlaixpachoani, ichtequini tlamachicoluiani, matzinallotl tzinaca tlanexaquia, tlanexmolonia
\nIn tepuzpitzqui matlatlâpaliui ichtic pupuxtli chicaoac\nIn qualli tepuzpitzqui, ixtlamati, mimati, muzcalia tlanemiliani, tlahimatini, tlâtliloani tlatlatlilhuiani, maiauini, tlatlâtlilhuia, tlâtliloa, tlatetzotzona, tepuzpitza tlepitza tecultema, tlatequi, tlatzooalcotona.
\nIn tlaueliloc tepuzpitzq̅ tlapiquini tlatziuini cuitlatzol iaiâcapil, iaiaqui tlatlaoiotiani, tlatlanellotiani, tlaciuhcachioani, tlaciuhcachioa tlatlanelotia, tlanachcatlaça.
\nin tlatecqui, tlanonotzalli, nonotzqui, nonotzale, tlaiximatini, tlachiquini, tlapetlaoani tlaxaluiani, tlatzinacancuitla[ujani,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"ff0b38ce-8466-49d7-9127-4222777ea944","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"he forms the charcoal [mold];[^5] he casts, he liquefies [the gold]; he places [the heated mold] on the sand.\n\nThe bad goldworker [is] one who lets ashes enter—swirl—[into the gold. He is] a pilferer, a robber of part [of the gold], a thief, a looter; one who slips his hand under … He introduces ashes [into the gold]; he allows ashes to swirl into it.\n\n##### The coppercaster, the copperfinisher\n\nThe coppercaster [is] dexterous, wiry, energetic, strong.\n\nThe good coppercaster is wise, honest, discreet, imaginative, adroit; [he is] one who outlines in black, who etches, who throws [his arm about in beating copper]. He etches, outlines in black; he beats, he casts the copper. He blows the fire, places the charcoal, cuts [the copper]—cuts it into strips.\n\nThe bad coppercaster [is] a fabricator of lies, lazy, languid, weak, feeble. [He is] one who lets the work dsintegrate, who adulterates [the copper], who works in haste. He works in haste, adulterates [the copper], wastes it.\n\n##### The lapidary\n\nThe lapidary [is] well reared, well advised; a counselor, informed in his art; an abrader, a polisher; one who works with sand; \n\n\n\n\n[^5]: Cf. *ibid. “sabe hazer moldes de carbon.”*","html":"he forms the charcoal [mold];1 he casts, he liquefies [the gold]; he places [the heated mold] on the sand.
\nThe bad goldworker [is] one who lets ashes enter—swirl—[into the gold. He is] a pilferer, a robber of part [of the gold], a thief, a looter; one who slips his hand under … He introduces ashes [into the gold]; he allows ashes to swirl into it.
\nThe coppercaster [is] dexterous, wiry, energetic, strong.
\nThe good coppercaster is wise, honest, discreet, imaginative, adroit; [he is] one who outlines in black, who etches, who throws [his arm about in beating copper]. He etches, outlines in black; he beats, he casts the copper. He blows the fire, places the charcoal, cuts [the copper]—cuts it into strips.
\nThe bad coppercaster [is] a fabricator of lies, lazy, languid, weak, feeble. [He is] one who lets the work dsintegrate, who adulterates [the copper], who works in haste. He works in haste, adulterates [the copper], wastes it.
\nThe lapidary [is] well reared, well advised; a counselor, informed in his art; an abrader, a polisher; one who works with sand;
\nCf. ibid. “sabe hazer moldes de carbon.”↩