Coltototl (MH522r)

Coltototl (MH522r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coltototl (here, attested as a man's name) has two prominent features. One is a jingle bell (coyolli) and the other is a bird (tototl). The bird is standing, facing toward the viewer's right. It appears that the bell may be held by a string that hangs from the bird's beak, which is open. The bird's eye is also open.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The root for bell, coyol-, is not quite the same as the start of the name as glossed, Col-. But it could be considered something of a homonym. If so, the simple translation would be Bell-Bird, which may be a reference to the sound it makes. But, of course, the meaning of the name may diverge from its literal translation. And perhaps the gloss should have read coyoltototl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

felipe coltototl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Felipe Coltototl

Gloss/Text 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)

onomatopoetic words

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Birds

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

facing right

profile view

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

bells, birds, campanilla, campanillas, campana, cascabel, cascabeles, campanas, pinjantes, metales, suenan, nombres de hombres, ave, aves, pájaro, pájaros, pluma, plumas, animals, animales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coyol(li), a jingle bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli
toto(tl), a bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tototl
colto(tl), a medicinal herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cascabel-Pájaro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 522r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=123&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: