book(s) or codex/codices (see Molina and Karttunen); see also the separate entry amoxtli meaning water plant
See an image that represents amoxtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
yn amuxtli, yn tlacujlolli: in qujpia yn tlilli, yn tlapalli, yn matile, un piale, yn nonotzale, yn oqujto = the picture {writing}, the ink, {and} the colors for painting; the knowledge, the wisdom which hath been uttered. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
yn iuh quittac yn amostli = as she saw it in the book (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
in ipã amostli yn itoca de scalla celli = in the book called Scala celi (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Inamox, intlacuilol. Zan ic no yehoatl quitoznequi: intlil, intlapal. = Their books, their writings. This means the same as, their black and their red.
Auh xicmocujtlavi in tlilli, in tlapalli, in amuxtli, in tlacujlolli: intloc innaoac ximocalaquj in iolizmatque, in tlamatinj = And take care [to understand] the writings, the books, the paintings. Enter with the prudent, the wise. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
"Inin quaderno amoxtli itech neztoc tlilancoc inin ixiuatlapualtzi in totecuiyo Dios inic ó mochiuhchtaya initech in cahuitl in huehetixtlamaque ipan inin Nueva España. In quenami neztoc inipan original zanyuhqui inic oniquiixcopin nehuatl Marcel de Zalazar, etc." = "In this book appears written this year count of our Lord God how it is shown what happened in the time of the old wise ones here in New Spain. As it appeared in the original, thus I, Marcelo de Salazar, etc., copied it." (Bartolache Annals, 1454–1737)