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Bravo.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Bravo.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname; the name of a Doctor who was an oidor of the Audiencia in sixteenth-century New Spain

Attestations from sources in English: 

For a portrait of Doctor Bravo, see the Codex Osuna, folio 16r or Image 34.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/?sp=34&st=image&r=-0.007,0...

The decipherment for the hieroglyph for the name is rather challenging. It is discussed in the Tlacuilolli blog.
https://tlacuilolli.com/2023/11/27/whats-in-a-name-the-mystery-of-a-glyp...

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents
Names (for people, deities)