a la huerta (Osu12v)

a la huerta (Osu12v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example comes from the Codex Osuna, folio 12 verso (or Image 27). It is included here for the possible purpose of comparing the details with hieroglyphs. This scene shows a fruit tree enclosed by a wall. The tree appears in an elevation view, while the wall is in a bird’s eye view.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Of course, the “a la” start to the word for orchard (huerta in Spanish), incorporates a preposition and an article. The combination got frozen, even though the meaning was just huerta. Other examples in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary are a la calle, a la cárcel, a la China, and more.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Osuna, Codex (Osu)

Date of Manuscript:

1551–1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Food, Eating, Cooking

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Keywords:

agricultura, frutas, árboles, huertas, bardas, recinto

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a la huerta, orchard (a loan from Spanish), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/la-huerta
a la (part of a congealed loan phrase), to the, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/la-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la huerta

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.

Image Source, Rights:

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