huitzquilitl (Mdz32r)

huitzquilitl (Mdz32r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This element for the herb huitzquilitl has been carved from the compound sign for the place name, Huitzquilocan. It shows three sprigs with two-tone green stems and green leaves.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is both an edible plant and a medicinal plant, according to explanations in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Health, Medicine

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Colors:

green (dark)

green (light)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Keywords:

edible herbs, medicinal herbs, hierbas comestibles, hierbas medicinales, plants, plantas, remedies, remedios, pahtli, patli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitzquili(tl), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitzquilitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el cardo, o la hierba comestible

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Alonso de Molina

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 32 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 74 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).