Camil (MH888r)

Camil (MH888r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Camil (“Brown”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a flower or a star. It has four pointed “petals” (perhaps) and four rounded ones, plus a small circle in the center. Eight short straight lines emanate out from the small circle, inside each “petal.”

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Stars and flowers appear below for the purpose of making comparisons.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria camil

Gloss Normalization: 

María Camil

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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Color names
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
pointed (see also spiky)
quincunx or quatrefoil
Keywords: 

flores, estrellas, colores, marrón, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

camiltic, brown, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/camiltic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Marrón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 888r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=848&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Citlalpopoca (MH827r)

Ihual (MH785r)

citlalin (MH775v)

citlalin (TR42v)

Amaxoch (MH746v)

Izquitlan (MH496v)

Texochimati (MH537r)

Xochitonal (MH775v)

tonalli (MH544v)