See an image that represents cabildo in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Detailed "actas de cabildo" in Nahuatl, such as those from Tlaxcala translated by James Lockhart, are quite rare but wonderful for what they can convey about the indigenous-run town council (described most often as the "oficiales de la república," rather than the "cabildo").
Rebecca Horn and James Lockhart, "Mundane Documents in Nahuatl," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Preliminary Version (e-book) (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, 2007, 2010),11.
capilton = cabildo, town council (1555)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), 54.
esso ppco de Cauo = escribano publico de cabildo (Saltillo, 1776)
Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 440–441.
huel miec neyxnamiquilistli omochiuh cabildo = a great deal of arguing took place in the cabildo
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 118–119.
yn omochiuh cabildo sala Real = a cabildo was held in the sala real Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 86–87.
titocetlalia ticchihua capilton = we congregate, make council (Nombre de Dios, Durango, late 16th century, 1585?)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 23, 126–127.
omotlali ofiçio cabirdo yaxca = an office belonging to the cabildo was set up
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 168–169.
yn tlatlapolonime macuiltetl yc mozaqua quappetlacalli cabildo onoc = guardians for the five keys with which the wooden chest that is in the council is closed (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 122–123.
In nican cabildo mocentlanlique in gouor alldes regidores yn ievatzin mgco señor diego rramirez corror por su mgt yn nican prouia tlaxcallan = here in the council the governor, alcaldes and councilmen. The magnificent sir Diego Ramírez, corregidor for His Magesty here in the province of Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 118–119.
itech puviz yn tlaxcalla cabildo = will belong to the council of Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 118–119.
yn ipan cabildo mocentlalique yn gouor alldes yhuan regidores = the governor, alcaldes, and councilmen here in the province of Tlaxcala assembled in council (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 118–119.
Escrivano de cabil tlsn fabian Ros = Notary of the council of Tlaxcala, Fabián Rodríguez (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 118–119.
nochin ymixpan yn cabildo povy = before all the council members (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 122–123.
quixpantiz yn cabildo = then [he is to] report to the council (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 124–125.
ixpan capilton de coyouacan = before the council of Coyoacan (Coyoacan, 1554)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 9, 88–89.
yuh yetivitz tlatlalili yn ordenaças del capildo yn ipan altepetl mexco = it is to be as established in the ordinance of the council in Mexico City [Mexico City (by Coyoacan writer?), 1557)]
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 35, 219–220.