Cuentlacuilol (MH487v)

Cuentlacuilol (MH487v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name [C?]uentlacuilol shows, at minimum, a horizontal strip of paper with what would appear to be writing on it [seemingly, a tlacuilolli). The ends of the strip of paper curve--upward on the left and downward on the right. The first part of the name is not visible.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Without the curves on the ends of what seems to be paper, one could ask whether this is an agricultural field, a cuemitl. Given that the Matrícula de Huexotzinco includes glyphs for the name Cuemicuilo and Mocuemicuilo, we have support for suspecting that this glyph here was for the name Cuentlacuilo. Further, the stem for cuemitl can change to cuen-. Terms worth tracking, if found, would include cuentlacuilolli and cuemicuilolli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Cuētlacuilol

Gloss Normalization:

Cuentlacuilol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Paper

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Xitlali Torres

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

horizontal

Keywords:

paper, papel, writing, escritura, document, documento, letter, carta

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacuilol(li), a piece of writing, painting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli
cuem(itl), agricultural parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuemitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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).