Huexotitlan (MH647v)

Huexotitlan (MH647v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the place name Huexotitlan, a barrio of Huexotzinco (Huejotzingo, Puebla) shows a tree (apparently a huexotl, or white willow) with a tan trunk and branches and fairly large, long and slender, green leaves on the branches. The -titlan locative suffix (meaning by or near) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This huexotl is not dissimilar to the way it was being drawn in the Codex Mendoza, nearly two decades earlier. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huexotitlan
barrio

Gloss Normalization:

Huexotitlan, barrio

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (light)

tan

Shapes and Perspectives:

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

frontal view

vertical, upright

Keywords:

árboles, sauces, nombres de lugares, topónimos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huexo(tl), white willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cerca del Sauce Blanco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=377&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: