En este capítulo se ponen cincuenta y seis maneras de mantas que usaban los señores para su vestir.1
\n1.a Usaban los señores una manera de mantas muy ricas que se llamaban coaxayacayo tilmatli. Era toda la manta leonada, y tenía una cara de monstruo o de diablo dentro de un círculo plateado, en un campo colorado. Estaba toda ella llena destos círculos y caras, y tenía una franja todo al rededor. De la parte dentro tenía la franja un labor de unas eses contrapuestas en unos campos cuadrados, y destos campos unos van ocupados y otros vacíos. De la parte de fuera esta franja tenía unas esférulas macizas, no muy juntas. Estas mantas usaban los señores, y dábanla por librea a las personas notables y señaladas de guerra.
\n2.a Usaban también otras mantas que se llamaban tecucizyo tilmatli. Llamábanse desta manera porque tenían texidos debuxos de caracoles mariscos de tochómitl colorado, y el campo era de unos remolinos de agua azules claros. Tenía un cuadro que la cercaba toda de azul, y la mitad escuro y la mitad claro, y otro cuadro después déste, de pluma blanca, y luego una franxa de tochómil colorado, no deshilada, sino dexida y almenada.
\n3.a Otra manera de mantas usaban los
\nSahagún se refiere aquí sólo a ocho clases de mantas. En el texto náhuatl se nombran cuarenta y ocho mantas y once taparrabos.↩
This chapter comprises fifty-six types of capes that the lords wore as part of their apparel.1
\n1st.2 The lords would wear a type of very rich cape called coaxayacayoh tilmahtli. This cape was completely tawny and had the face of a monster or devil inside a silvery circle, over a red field. It was completely covered with these circles and faces, with a bordering stripe all around it. Inside of it, this stripe had an embroidery of alternating Ss placed over square-shaped fields; and some of these fields were adorned, while others were empty. On the outside, this stripe had some small solid spheres, not too close to each other. The lords would use these capes and gift them as liveries to notable people who had distinguished themselves in battle.
\n2nd. They would also wear other capes called teccizyoh tilmahtli. They had this name because, on the lower part, they had designs of seashells woven out of red tochomitl; and the field consisted of some light-blue whirlpools. It had a square that framed it all in blue, and one half was dark, and the other half was light; and then it had another square after this one, made of white feathers, and then a border of red tochomitl that was not frayed but woven and crenellated.
\n3rd. The lords would wear another type of cape
\nLAGQ (2:739) points out that, in this chapter, Sahagún makes reference to only eight types of capes, while the Nahuatl text names forty-eight capes and eleven types of loincloths.↩
The use of ordinal numbers here instead of simple cardinal numbers reflects the indications in the Spanish text: 1.a, 2.a, 3.a, etc. (LAGQ 2:739–40).↩
in tilmatli in maxtlatl.
\nCoaxaiacaio tilmatli, tenjxio,
\ntecucizio tilmatli tenjxio,
\ntemalacaio tilmatli tenjxio,
\nitzcoaio tilmatli tenjxio,
\nvmetochtecomaio tilmatli tenjxio,
\npapaloio tilmatli tenjxio,
\nxaoalquauhio tilmatli tenjxio,
\nocelotentlapalli iitic icac oçelotl,
\nchicoiapalli nacazmjnquj iitic icac itzquauhtli,
\nxiuhtlalpilnacazmjnquj, tlacochquauhtli vncan icac,
\nquetzalichtilmatli ocelocujtlapillo
\nquetzalichpetztli, quapatlacio tilmatli,
\ncamopalecacozcaio, tenjujio tilmatli,
\ncamopaltenoaoanquj tilmatli, apalecacozcaio tilmatli, iujtica tentlaiaoalo,
\nnochpaltilmatli tenjxio,
\nquappachtentlaiaoalo tilmatli,\ncoioichcatentlaiaoalo tilmatli,\nquappachtlalpilli tilmatli,\ncolotlaxochio tilmatli,\nquapachatocaio tilmatli,\nquappapaloio tilmatli,\noçelotilmatli,\nquauhtetepoio tilmatli,\noçeloxicalcoliuhquj tilmatli,\noce[lotilmatli,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"354da238-e380-4a4a-b640-ee3cca5126bc","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":"#### in capes and breech clouts. \n\nThe cape with the serpent mask design, bordered with eyes;[^1] \n\nThe cape with the conch shell design, bordered with eyes;[^2] \n\nThe cape with a design of stone discs, bordered with eyes;[^3] \n\nThe cape with the obsidian serpent design, bordered with eyes;[^4] \n\nThe cape with wine-god jar design, bordered with eyes;[^5] \n\nThe cape with the butterfly design, bordered with eyes;\n\nThe cape with an eagle’s face painted on it, bordered with eyes;[^6] \n\nThe red-bordered ocelot cape, in the middle of which stood an ocelot;[^7] \n\nThe cape of dark green diagonally divided, in the middle of which stood an obsidian eagle;[^8] \n\nThe cape of blue knots diagonally divided,[^9] on which a spear-eagle stood; \n\nThe maguey fiber cape, with an ocelot tail pendant;\n\nThe cape of shining maguey fiber [ornamented with] flattened heads;\n\nThe orange cape with the wind jewel[^10] [design] and the feathered border; \n\nThe orange cape with a striped border; \n\nThe light blue cape with a wind jewel design, which had a border of feathers with spirals; \n\nThe carmine-colored cape with an eye border; \n\nThe tawny cape with a spiral border; \n\nThe coyote fur cape with a spiral border;\n\nThe tawny, knotted cape;\n\nThe cape with scorpion design stripes;\n\nThe tawny cape with the water spider;\n\nThe tawny cape with the butterfly;\n\nThe ocelot cape;\n\nThe cape with the eagle’s leg;\n\nThe cape with the ocelot skin step design;[^11] \n\n\n\n\n[^1]: Fol. 16*r* of Book VIII of the *Florentine Codex* defines the border with eyes or eyelets. Also see corresponding Spanish text. \n\n\n[^2]: Cf. James Cooper Clark: *Codex Mendoza* (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1938), III, fol. 46.\n\n\n[^3]: Cf. corresponding Spanish text.\n\n\n[^4]: Cf. Clark, *op. cit*., fol. 31.\n\n\n[^5]: Cf. *loc. cit*.\n\n\n[^6]: Cf. *ibid*., fol. 49. An alternative translation might be “the colored eagle feather cape.” \n\n\n[^7]: Cf. *ibid*., fol. 31. See also Seler, *Gesammelte Abhandlungen*, II, p. 522.\n\n\n[^8]: *Itzquauhtli*: see, however, Sahagún, *op. cit*., III, p. 181. \n\n\n[^9]: *Xiuhtlalpilli* might refer to a design suggested by the ceremony of tying the years. \n\n\n[^10]: See, however, corresponding Spanish text, in which *ecacozcatl* is described as a flower; see also Book VIII of the Codex, fol. 16*v*. \n\n\n[^11]: Oçeloxicalcoliuhquj (*ocelotl, xicalli, coliuhqui*—ocelot, gourd, twisted): gourd vessel with curved decoration. The nature of weaving makes it a stepped design.","html":"The cape with the serpent mask design, bordered with eyes;1
\nThe cape with the conch shell design, bordered with eyes;2
\nThe cape with a design of stone discs, bordered with eyes;3
\nThe cape with the obsidian serpent design, bordered with eyes;4
\nThe cape with wine-god jar design, bordered with eyes;5
\nThe cape with the butterfly design, bordered with eyes;
\nThe cape with an eagle’s face painted on it, bordered with eyes;6
\nThe red-bordered ocelot cape, in the middle of which stood an ocelot;7
\nThe cape of dark green diagonally divided, in the middle of which stood an obsidian eagle;8
\nThe cape of blue knots diagonally divided,9 on which a spear-eagle stood;
\nThe maguey fiber cape, with an ocelot tail pendant;
\nThe cape of shining maguey fiber [ornamented with] flattened heads;
\nThe orange cape with the wind jewel10 [design] and the feathered border;
\nThe orange cape with a striped border;
\nThe light blue cape with a wind jewel design, which had a border of feathers with spirals;
\nThe carmine-colored cape with an eye border;
\nThe tawny cape with a spiral border;
\nThe coyote fur cape with a spiral border;
\nThe tawny, knotted cape;
\nThe cape with scorpion design stripes;
\nThe tawny cape with the water spider;
\nThe tawny cape with the butterfly;
\nThe ocelot cape;
\nThe cape with the eagle’s leg;
\nThe cape with the ocelot skin step design;11
\nFol. 16r of Book VIII of the Florentine Codex defines the border with eyes or eyelets. Also see corresponding Spanish text.↩
Cf. James Cooper Clark: Codex Mendoza (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1938), III, fol. 46.↩
Cf. corresponding Spanish text.↩
Cf. Clark, op. cit., fol. 31.↩
Cf. loc. cit.↩
Cf. ibid., fol. 49. An alternative translation might be “the colored eagle feather cape.”↩
Cf. ibid., fol. 31. See also Seler, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, II, p. 522.↩
Itzquauhtli: see, however, Sahagún, op. cit., III, p. 181.↩
Xiuhtlalpilli might refer to a design suggested by the ceremony of tying the years.↩
See, however, corresponding Spanish text, in which ecacozcatl is described as a flower; see also Book VIII of the Codex, fol. 16v.↩
Oçeloxicalcoliuhquj (ocelotl, xicalli, coliuhqui—ocelot, gourd, twisted): gourd vessel with curved decoration. The nature of weaving makes it a stepped design.↩