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tzontecomac tlacuilolli.

Headword: 
tzontecomac tlacuilolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of papers or titles associated with an altepetl, possibly associate,d in particular, with a cabecera (in the Spanish system of town hierarchy as it was applied to indigenous communities)

Attestations from sources in English: 

This term is associated with the Techialoyan genre of manuscripts. Similar to tzontecomac tlacuilolli is: tzontecotliltlacuilolli = cabecera document.
Stephanie Wood, Mapa de Tolcayuca f. 3r., The Mapas Project, University of Oregon. James Lockhart assisted with the translation.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

oticto ixpantililique yn tlamatl, maba ihuan isontecomac tla quiloli = le presentamos a él, el papel de las tierras que se llama mapa y también la pintura principal. (Estado de Hidalgo, ca. 1722?; un documento con relación al grupo Techialoyan)
Rocío Cortés, El "nahuatlato Alvarado" y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena (New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, Colonial Spanish American Series, 2011), 31, 43.