Cocoztic (MH518v)

Cocoztic (MH518v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Cocoztic (here, attested as a man's name) is an upright yellow (coztic) flower with a stem and a leaf. The flower breaks into three petals at the top, and two anthers with small circles at the top protrude from the petals. The flower has a bit of shading on the lower left side.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe cocoztic

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Cocoztic

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: 
adjective
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
tripartite
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, colors, colores, yellow, amarillo, nombres de hombres

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

coztic, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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).

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