See an image that represents tlacuilolli 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)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 9.
tepotzoicpalli tlacujlolli, tzinjcpalli tlacujlolli = seats with backs, painted with designs; low seats painted with designs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 31.
"[T]hey use glyphs instead of letters for the things they want to represent, and they paint them on paper prepared from the pulp of various trees, as we have shown elsewhere. They carve them also on stone, bronze, leather, and walls, and they weave them into their garments." (Central Mexico, 1571–1615)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 78.
auh mochintin ynin que teteuctin amo omazicamat ynin tlachihualiz. Ypanpa inícuac ocalla que yncaxtilteca mochí opolíuhque ynín tlacuilol Amahuan = But the accomplishments of all these lords are not found in the painted books. = When the Spaniards entered, they destroyed all these books.
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 26.
tliltica tlacujlolli = paper banners painted in black
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 70.
ynin tlahtolli vmpa tlaquixtilli yn tlatilolco ytech tlapaltlacuilloli huel neltiliztli = This account is taken from a colored picture-writing in Tlatelolco. It is indeed the truth. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 58–59.
quetzaltica tlacuiloli = the design is of quetzal [feathers] (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 261.
ayatlacuilolli = net-like painted cape (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 184.
icampa tlacuilolli = a piece of writing on the back of a letter or book (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
iztlaca tlacuilolli = a false piece of writing (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 49v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
nemiliz tlacuilolli = a chronicle, a history, or a legend (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 67v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
tilma tlacuilolli = a painted cloth, or an image painted on cloth (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 113r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Inamox, intlacuilol. Zan ic no yehoatl quitoznequi: intlil, intlapal. = Their books, their writings. This means the same as, their black and their red. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 176–177.
ynic cenca miequintin ҫatepan oquinextique yn tlahueliloque oquimomahuizpolhuique yntlacuiloltica yn aquique conҫaҫalohuaya puertatitech yn oncan yglesia mayor yohualtica = as many scoundrels afertward manifested and made insults about him in writing, sticking them on the doors of the cathedral at night (central Mexico, 1610)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 166–7.
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)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 215.
amatl tlaquiloli motocallotia Carta de Benta escriptura tlalnamaquilistli = a letter, a piece of writing called a Bill of Sale, a document of land sale (Toluca, 1756)
From Stephanie Wood's notes made from Nahuatl documents in her file "Bills of Sale," citing Archivo General del Estado de México, RPEM 6, exp. 17, ff. 1r.–3r.