Chimalpepech (MH810r)

Chimalpepech (MH810r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the compound name Chimalpepech is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a right hand (maitl) reaching in from the left. Below the hand is a frontal view of a circular war shield (chimalli) with two horizontal black lines (one thin, above, and one thick, below) in the middle of the circle. Below these lines are three small U-shapes. The circle is completely surrounded with what might be small feathers. Longer feathers hang down from the bottom third of the shield.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

While the hand could be a phonetic complement for the -ma- in chimalli, it may serve either a phonetic or a semantic role in the second part of the name, -pepech. This remains to be elucidated further. The design of this shield is a common one, but one will find another U-shape above the double lines in some cases. Another typical design can be found on the bottom two examples, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

frañ chimalpepech

Gloss Normalization:

Fran Chimalpepech

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)

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:

frontal view

horizontal

striped

U-shapes (any direction)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

escudos, rodelas, manos, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chimalpepech, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalpepech
chimal(li), a war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un tipo de rodela)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=694st=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: