Cuazaolcalzol (MH648r)

Cuazaolcalzol (MH648r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuazaol Calzolli (perhaps “Biting Bee, Old House,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a European-influenced drawing of a hill or mountain (with shading for contours) with what appears to be a wooden door (again, showing European influence in architectural evolution). On top of the mountain is a bee, shown in profile facing toward the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The translation of this glyph deserves further research. The old house (calzolli) that may appear in this glyph in the form of a door in front of the hill, may be the location where Pedro Cuazaol lives or works. Or, it could be part of his name. Typically, in this manuscript what follows after a person’s Nahua name is an occupation. The "-calzol" in the gloss here, however, seems to be attached to the Cuazaol-.

Juan José Batalla recognizes this obvious door as a European architectural introduction. See: "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del Centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos nahuas," in El arte de escribir. El Centro de México: del Posclásico al siglo XVII, eds. Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio (Zinacantepec, Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C., 2018), 83.]

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro guacaolcarçol

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Pedro Cuazaolcalzol (?)

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:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

frontal view

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

insectos, bichos, picar, casas, arquitectura, puerta de madera, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cua, to eat, or to bite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua
necuzaol(in), a honey bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necuzaolin
calzol(li), old house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calzolli
tlatzacuil(li), wooden door, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzacuilli-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Abeja Que Pica (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&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).

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