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Amate (Spanish:
amate [aˈmate] from
Nahuatl languages:
āmatl [
ˈaːmat͡ɬ]) is a type of bark
paper that has been
manufactured in
Mexico since the precontact...
- in
Mayan languages (the
Aztec people far to the
north used the word
āmatl [
ˈaːmat͡ɬ] for paper). The Maya
developed their huun-paper
around the 5th century...
- codex, but were
instead made with long
folded strips of
either fig bark (
amatl) or
plant fibers,
often with a
layer of
whitewash applied before writing...
- Díaz del Castillo,
Moctezuma had a
library full of such books,
known as
amatl, or amoxtli, kept by a
calpixqui or
nobleman in his palace, some of them...
- boissieri, the anaca****ta. That word in turn is
derived from the
Nahuatl words āmatl,
meaning "paper," and cua****tl,
meaning "tree,"
possibly referring to the...
- codex, but were
instead made with long
folded strips of
either fig bark (
amatl) or
plant fibers,
often with a
layer of
whitewash applied before writing...
- from
processed tree-bark
generally now
known by its Nahuatl-language name
amatl used to
produce codices. The
skill and
knowledge of Maya
writing persisted...
- a 16th-century
Nahua pictorial do****ent,
consisting of
three sheets of
amatl paper that
depict the
history of Acolhuacan.
Aztec codices Codex Xolotl...
- "tonalamatl" is made up of two
Nahuatl words, "tonalli"
meaning day, and "
amatl"
referring to the
paper substrate that this
codex is
written on.
While it...
- m****cripts
collectively known as
Aztec codices. It is an eight-sheet do****ent on
amatl, a pre-European
paper made in Mesoamerica, and
consists of part of the testimony...