Ce Imol (MH520r)

Ce Imol (MH520r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing combines a simplex glyph and a notation for the personal name Ce Imol (here, attested as a man's name). It shows a rectangular, vertical bar suggesting the number one (ce) coming out of a sauce bowl (molcaxitl). Three tiny feet from the bowl legs are visible at the bottom of the bowl. The bar has some unidentified markings on it down near the bowl. The third-person singular possessive pronoun (i-) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a personal name, preceded in the gloss by a Christian first name (Toribio). He may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word he learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

torio çeymol

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Ce Imol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
numbers
Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Numbers, Math
Religion (Christian)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood and Emily Mehler

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

números, posesivo, bowls, molcajete

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

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cen
i-, 3rd pers singular possessive indicator, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i
mol(li), sauce, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/molli
molcaxi(tl), sauce bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/molcaxitl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&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: 

Atl Imol (MH528r)

molli (Mdz55r)

Ce Coatl (MH519r)

Ometoch (MH498r)