Chimalli Xochitl (MH870v)

Chimalli Xochitl (MH870v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chimalli Xochitl (literally, War Shield-Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright flower (xochitl) with three visible petals. Below the flower is a circular war shield (chimalli) with a band of two horizontal, curving lines across the middle, three u-shapes below the lines, and one above. The one above was originally opening downward, but then a bit was added to have it opening upward.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For another example of a similar name, but reversed, see Xochichimal, below. This design on the shield was a fairly common one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o. chimali xochitl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chimalli Xochitl

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:

Flowers

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:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

tripartite

U-shapes (any direction)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

escudos, flores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Escudo-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 870v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=813&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:

dropped "l"

errors and revisions

Historical Contextualizing Image: