icuiloa (MH521v)

icuiloa (MH521v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This image for this element, which we see as representing the verb icuiloa (to write or paint), is a double of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Mocuemicuilo.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The act of painting or writing can also be called tlacuiloliztli, but the part of the name that is -icuilo clearly points to icuiloa.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Syntax: 
cuil (tracking)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Writing, Literacy
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
boxed in
diagonal or angled
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
rectangular
Keywords: 

write, writing, painting, escribir, inscribir, pintar, paint, escribiendo, pintando

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

icuiloa, to write/paint, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiloa
tlacuiloliz(tli), the act of writing or painting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuiloliztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

escribir o pintar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=122&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).

See Also: 

Mocuemicuilo (MH521v)

Cuilol (MH520r)

tlacuiloliztli (Mdz70r)

tlacuiloliztli (TR30r)