Huitzilapan Xochitl (MH907r)

Huitzilapan Xochitl (MH907r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huitzilapan Xochitl (literally, “Hummingbird-Canal Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows swirling water (atl, or apantli) with a hummingbird (huitzilin) head in profile facing right and coming out of the water near the top. The water is shown in a bird’s eye view. The flower (xochitl) part of the name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The -apan suffix to the first part of this name could mean “on the water,” and it does not have to be a canal. But the Huitzilapan in the Codex Mendoza does show a canal, so it is a possibility. Also, perhaps this woman’s name simply refers to her as the “Flower of Huitzilapan,” intending the place name to be retained as part of the name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria huitzilapā xochitl

Gloss Normalization: 

María Huitzilapan Xochitl

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Birds
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

flores, colibríes, canales, ríos, nombres de lugares, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

huitzilin, hummingbird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzilin
apan(tli), river, water ditch, or canal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apantli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

literalmente, Colibríes-Canal Flor, pero tal vez, “La Flor de Huitzilapan”

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 907r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=884&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: 
See Also: 

Huitzilapan (Mdz23r)