amatlacuilo.

Headword: 
amatlacuilo.
Principal English Translation: 

a painter who uses paper; or, an official writer, a scribe (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

amatlacuilo. escriuano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This concept existed in preconquest Mexico and was associated with the nobility.

amatlacuilo = scribe, writer (or painter) on paper
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500–1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 221.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Occupations, Responsibilities
Paper
Writing, Literacy