Cozauh (MH828v)

Cozauh (MH828v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cozauh (perhaps “Turned Yellow”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows only a horizontal white rectangle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Simple, empty shapes can refer to color names, and in this case, the name Cozauh refers to the color yellow or gold. If the tlacuilo were using more color in this census, the box might have been colored yellow. See some glyphs for color names below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas cotzauh

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Cozauh

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
rectangular
Keywords: 

amarillo, dorado, nombres de hombres

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

cozauhqui, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozauhqui
cozahui, to turn yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozahui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Se Puso Amarillo, o Dorado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 828v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=731&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).

Orthography: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
"tz" for z
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

coztic (Mdz23r)

coztic (Mdz44r)

tlatlauhqui (Mdz51r)