Matlacmani (MH482v)

Matlacmani (MH482v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This combined notation and simplex glyph (which virtually creates a compound) for the personal name Matlacmani (perhaps "To Be Like Ten," or "Ten Hands") shows a sign for the notation of ten (matlactli) that is used in the Huexotzinco area. Below that is the simplex glyph that is a frontal view of a (right) human hand (maitl), phonetically signaling the second part of the name, -mani ("to be a certain way").

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for two other representations of the number ten, as a group of ten ones (small circles, colored variously). This diamond shape for 10 can be found in various codices from Huexotzinco (see the publications of Baltazar Brito Guadarrama).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co matlacmani

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Matlacmani

Semantic Categories:

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Numbers, Math

Shapes and Perspectives:

diamond shape(s)

frontal view

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

numbers, números, manos, hands

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matlac(tli), ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli
mani, to be a certain way, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani-1
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 482v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=44&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: