Calan (MH837r)

Calan (MH837r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Calan (perhaps “He Rang Bells”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a round bell with a hole at the bottom for the sound to escape and a loop at the top for hanging and/or attaching the bell. The bell also has a horizontal line through the middle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Bells often had a use in dance, whether attached to ankles or to skirts. One bell in this collection shows sound volutes emerging from the hole at the bottom (see Coyolapan, below), much like speech or song might. Other glyphs that show metal bells (for the purpose of searching) are coyolli, oyohualli, tzilini, tlalala, and the loanword from Spanish, campana.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

filipe cala

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Calan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

Keywords:

campanas, campanillas, jingle bells, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

calani, to ring (as in a bell), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Tocó Campanas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 837r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=748&st=image.

Image Source, Rights:

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography:

"i" for e

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: