malinalli (Mxnus26)

malinalli (Mxnus26)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the element malinalli (tall and twisted grass) has been carved from the compound place name Malinaltepec (see below). The glyph shows some dark and light twisted grass that was folded in half and then twisted, creating a loop at the bottom and another window in the middle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mexicanus, Codex (Mxnus)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1590

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

central Mexico

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Plants, Flora

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

twisted or entwined

vertical, upright

Keywords:

grasses, medicinal herbs, hierbas medicinales, hay, paja

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

malinalli, tall grass, twisted grass, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/malinalli

Image Source:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15284/?sp=26&st=image. This image is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library, but the manuscript is part of the holdings of Bibliothèque nationale de France and the original source is gallica.bnf.fr/BNF.

Image Source, Rights:

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