Chicochal (MH619r)

Chicochal (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chicochal is attested here as a man's name. The glyph awaits further analysis. It appears to have two jade beads (chalchihuitl), another small circle above and somewhat between them, and what may be a mountain (but not in the traditional style) below them.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The Chico- start to the name could intend Chicon- the stem for the number seven (chicome). But another possibility is the antiquated number five (Chico-), which hides in the start to numbers such as chicuacen (five plus one, or six), chicome (five plus two, or seven), chicueyi (five plus three, or eight), and chiucnahui (five plus four, or nine).

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juseph chicochal

Gloss Normalization:

José (or Josef) Chicochal

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

vertical, upright

Keywords:

jade, cuentas, dedos, manos, al lado, círculos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chico, on one side, crooked, or possibly five fingers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chico
chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
chalchihui(tl), jade beads, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Cinco o Siete Chalchihuites

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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: