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cuica amatl.

Headword: 
cuica amatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a song book, or a singer (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuicaamatl
Alonso de Molina: 

cuica amatl. cancionero, o libro de canto.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

amo no aca cana quinamacaz cuicaamatl yn aquin ypan anoz ytech neziqui yn pena macuilli pesos tomines quixtlavaz yvan ze xihutica totocoz yvan quicencavaz yn cuicatl = tampoco en ninguna parte venderá libro de cantos al que le pase esto tendrá una pena de cinco pesos tomines que pagará y un año se le despedirá y dejará el canto (Tlaxcala, 1565)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 35–36.

themes: 
Music, Song, Dance
Writing, Literacy