Iztac (MH714r)

Iztac (MH714r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Iztac (“White”), is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph is a square that is left natural or white (iztac) intentionally to convey the color name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is not unusual for color names to fill otherwise empty squares or circles, as other examples show (below). But color can also occupy another object (such as a hill, tepetl) and still be named.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
Keywords: 

blanco, nombres de colores, nombres de mujeres

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

iztac, white (adjective) or something white (noun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Blanca

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 714r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=506&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).

Orthography: 
"y" for i
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Iztac (MH524v)

Iztac (MH633v)

coztic (Mdz23r)

coztic (Mdz44r)

xihuitl (CQ)

tlatlauhqui (Mdz51r)

Tlilhua (MH630v)

Tliltepec (Mdz16v)

Iztactlalocan (Mdz13v)