Chimalpanecatl (MH762r)

Chimalpanecatl (MH762r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, "Chimalpanecatl" ("Person from Chimalpan," attested here as a man's name), shows a war shield (chimalli). It is meant to give away the ethnicity of the man. This shield is drawn as a circle with a fringe at the bottom.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
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
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
circle (half)
frontal view
Keywords: 

shields, rodelas, escudos, barrios, afiliación, nombres de hombres

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

chimal(li), a shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
pan (locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-ecatl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 762r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=602&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: 

Chimalpanecatl (MH647r)