Ce Itzcuin (MH840v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ce Itzcuin (“One-Dog” or 1-Dog) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a dog (itzcuintli) in profile, facing the viewer’s right. It appears to be standing on its hind legs, and has its front legs almost dangling down. Its coat is mottled. The number one (ce) us not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
This is a calendrical name that comes from the religious divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. A numerical element such as “One” will sometimes be marked with a notation, such as a dot or a short vertical line (see examples below). But, here, the name just pictures a single dog. These calendrical names were in a process of evolving by the time of this manuscript (1560), whereby numerical elements were sometimes dropping away altogether or, in other cases, the number remained but not the day sign, resulting in names such as Macuilli (five).
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
números, perros, calendarios, días, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres
itzcuin(tli), a dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itzcuintli
ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
Uno-Perro, o 1-Perro
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 840v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=755&st=image.
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).
