Cozcamatzin (MH538r)

Cozcamatzin (MH538r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cozcamatzin (attested here as a man’s name) shows a necklace (cozcatl) with three beads at the site where a bracelet might be expected, at the base of a hand (mait)). The reverential suffix (-tzin) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The literal translation, "Necklace-Hand," seems unlikely, but an idiomatic translation for this name is elusive. There are several glyphs for bracelet (macuextli) that look much like this one. Perhaps this is a variant, another way of saying bracelet? Alternatively, the term cozcamaitl was documented in Tzinacapan in 1984 as meaning "listones del collar," or necklace ribbons. (See: Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/cozcamaitl/182523.)

There was a famous merchant named Cozcamatzin (mentioned in an online study called "El Chalchihuitl: Trafico, Tributo y Comercio de La Piedra"). The use of the reverential (-tzin) suggests a degree of status.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys. cozcamatzin

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Cozcamatzin

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephaie 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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

facing left

frontal view

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

collares, manos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
-tzin, reverential suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar-Mano (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 538r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=155&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:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: