Matlalihuitl (MH829v)

Matlalihuitl (MH829v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Matlalilhuitl (perhaps “Blue-Green Feather”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a flower (perhaps the matlalxochitl) with four large petals and a round center, giving it the look of a quincunx. Between the petals are small rounded protrusions. The edges of the petals have a border with dark hatching. Behind and to the right of this flower if a feather on a diagonal. The feather is dark on one side of the calamus and has dark hatching on the lower side.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another glyph for the name Matlalihuitl shows a similar flower, but it is painted a turquoise blue with some pink at the center. The flower, matlalin, can have three or four petals.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

andres matlallihuitl

Gloss Normalization:

Andrés Matlalihuitl

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

quincunx or quatrefoil

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

left to right

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Matlalihuitl, a popular sixteenth-century name, perhaps blue-green feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlalihuitl
matlalxochitl, a blue or green flower with medicinal value for “heat” in the eyes, see the OND for matlalin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlalin-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=733&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: