Ixtlilxochitl (MH521r)

Ixtlilxochitl (MH521r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlilxochitl has three principal components. On the right is a frontal view of a human eye (ixtli). The pupil and iris are black (tlilli). A line connects this eye to a flower (xochitl), on the left. The flower is tall and upright, it has a base and, at the top, it divides into three petals.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

We are assuming that the glossator inadvertently omitted an "l" in rendering the name, but perhaps the -tlil- (black) is not intended here. This eye is drawn in a European style. See the Nahua way of drawing and painting an eye (which doubles as a stellar eye), below. This compound of Ix + tlil + xochitl results in the famous name Ixtlilxochitl (perhaps "Black Face-Flower") not that the person with this name necessarily has a personal connection to the famous rulers of Tetzcoco. Many babies, often from distant altepetl, could have been given illustrious names, while possibly having no personal genealogical connection to the original holder of the name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co yxtlixochitl

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Ixtlilxochitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood, José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

oval (see also leaf shaped)

tripartite

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

eyes, ojos, black, color negro, flowers, flores, ixtlil , nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
tlil(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&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: