Macuilaca (MH563r)

Macuilaca (MH563r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the calendrical personal name Macuilaca (“Five-Reed,” attested here as a man’s name) shows five small circles and, below that, a frontal view of an upright reed plant in the form of a stalk with a small leaf on each side.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While it is not the case with this example, by the time of this manuscript, 1560, some calendrical names were dropping the number and reducing the name to the day sign alone (which makes it less obvious that it is a date). Some suggest that this could be related to the threat of old religious beliefs that calendrical names retained their divinatory implications.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gil macuilaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Gil Macuilaca

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: 
calendrics
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
horizontal
vertical, upright
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

reeds, canes, cañas, ones, unos, numbers, números, fechas, dates, calendario

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

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
aca(tl), reed or cane, and a day sign in the calendar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cinco Caña, o 5-Caña

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 563r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=205&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: