Chimalhuilan (MH504r)

Chimalhuilan (MH504r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chimalhuilan ("Shield-Stretched," attested here as a man's name) shows a war shield (chimalli) with fringe elements of feathers that appear extra long or dragged (huilanqui). The design in the center of the circular shield is a quincunx, a quatrefoil shape with a small circle in the center.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A similar design will be found in some other shields in this collection. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan
chimalhuilla

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chimalhuilan

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

quincunx or quatrefoil

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

downward

Keywords:

shields, rodelas, escudos, guerra, fleco largo, quincunces, redondo, círculos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huilan(qui), something stretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilanqui
chimal(li), a war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=87&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:

"ll" for l

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: