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tonalamatl.

Headword: 
tonalamatl.
Principal English Translation: 

book of days

Eloise Quiñones Keber, "An Introduction to the Images, Artists, and Physical Features of the Primeros Memoriales," in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 19.

IPAspelling: 
toːnɑlɑːmɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tonalamatl. martilojo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 149r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tonalamatl = the 260–day calendar
David Tavárez, The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 45.

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