Macehual (MH745v)

Macehual (MH745v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status, Macehual (“Commoner”), attested here as referring to a man, shows simply a hand (maitl). This is a phonetic indicator for the start of the word, “Ma-.” Other examples of the use of the hand as a phonetic indicator appear below.

Description, 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
title/office
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

macehuales, manos, nombres de hombres

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

macehual(li), a commoner, and later, an Indigenous person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macehualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Macehual

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 745v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=569&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

maitl (Mdz12r)

maitl (Mdz21v)

Tlamaceuh (MH491r)

Chamolmani (MH490v)

Matlapal (MH524v)