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.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

felipe coltototl

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Coltototl

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)

onomatopoetic words

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

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, campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, pájaros, metales, suenan

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: