Matlacxochitl (MH607r)

Matlacxochitl (MH607r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Matlacxochitl ("Ten Flower," attested here as a man's name) shows a vertical flower with a leaf, a stem, and five visible petals. Xochitl is a day sign in the 260-day calendar called the tonalpohualli. Its changeable companion number, in this case, is ten, which is represented by ten small black dots running horizontally above the flower and bending down to the right, turning a corner.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The Xochitl day sign could have a companion number between 1 and 13, depending upon which day in the 260-day cycle one was considering. The divinatory calendar (tonalpohualli) could be consulted to learn the potential fate of a baby born on that day. Calendrics played a significant role in Nahuas' religious view of the cosmos.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

felipe matlac xochitl

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Matlacxochitl

Gloss 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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

números, diez, flores, fechas, calendarios, días, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matlac(tli), ten, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlactli
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Diez Flor o 10-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 607r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=296&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: