Macuilitzcuin (MH622r)

Macuilitzcuin (MH622r)
Simplex Hieroglyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph plus notation for the personal name Macuilitzcuin (attested here as a man's name) shows the head of a dog in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its eye is open, and its tongue is protruding. Itzcuintli (a small hairless dog) is a day sign in the tonalpohualli, or 260-day calendar. The variable companion number for this day sign here is five (macuilli), indicated as five vertical lines stretching upward from the dog's nose. As with any calendrical day sign, the itzcuintli could have a companion number between 1 and 13, depending upon which day in the 260-day cycle one was considering.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Calendars played a significant role in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos and the human's place in that universe. The 260-day divinatory calendar (tonalpohualli) could be consulted to learn the potential fate of a baby whose birth had an association with a particular day.

Note how, in the gloss, the name Mateo shows "th" for t, one of many orthographic features that this collection is tracking.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo
macuilitzcuin

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Mateo Macuilitzcuin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

linear or multiple straight lines

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

downward

Keywords:

números, cinco, perros, calendarios, días, tonalpohualli, calendars, nombres de hombres, men's names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
itzcuin(tli), dog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itzcuintli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Perro, o 5-Perro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=326&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:

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: