Cuauhtliztac (MH495v)

Cuauhtliztac (MH495v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtliztac (“White Eagle,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) looking toward the viewer's right. It is a white (iztac) eagle. the feathers at the base of the neck are somewhat spiky, and there are gray lines of texturing above these spikes.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Interestingly, the baptismal name of this man, Hernando, coincides with that of the leader of the Spanish invasion and seizure of power, Hernando Cortés, from several decades earlier.

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

her^do, guauhtliztac

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Hernando Cuauhtliztac

Gloss/Text 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:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

águilas, blanco, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
iztac, white, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztac

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to this name, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45) as "poetic metaphor."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Águila Blanca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: