Ilhuicaxochitl (MH572v)

Ilhuicaxochitl (MH572v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ilhuicaxochitl (“Heavenly Flower,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of an arch (apparently referring to the sky (ilhuicatl). Below that is an upright flower with three predominant petals.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This arc or arch for the sky suggests European influence. It is very different from the horizontal, multicolored sky band shown below from the Codex Mendoza.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego ylhuicaxochitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Ilhuicaxochitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
tripartite
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
inward (from outside in)
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

flowers, flores, sky, cielo, ilhuicatl

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

ilhuica(tl), sky, heaven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ilhuicatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 572v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=224&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: 

ilhuicatl (Mdz7v)