Cocoliztli (MH638v)

Cocoliztli (MH638v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status, Cocoliztli ("Illness," attested here as a man's name), shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. He has spots on his face and his hair is tousled. A couple of additional spots or dots are seen in the air above the ill person's nose. His eye is open, as is his mouth.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cocoliztli

Gloss Normalization:

Cocoliztli

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Death, decay, decomposition

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Health, Medicine

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spotted or mottled

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

enfermedades, epidemias, plagas, plagues, epidemics, sicknesses, diseases, pestilence, pestilencia, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cocoliz(tli), disease or pestilence, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoliztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pestilencia, o Enfermedad

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=359&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: