Matlaltzincatl (MH605r)

Matlaltzincatl (MH605r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Matlaltzincatl (“Person of Matlaltzinco,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a three-petal matlalin flower. There was a Matlaltzinco north of Tenochtitlan, mentioned in historical sources, such as Bernal Díaz de Castillo. A similar place name is Matlatzinco, an area of the Toluca Valley, but this name lacks a crucial "l," and its hieroglyphs show nets (matlatl) rather than these flowers (matlalin).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for an example of the Matlatzinco glyphs and for other matlalin flowers. Sometimes the matlalin has four petals, which give it a quincunx shape, and that could lend itself to a cosmic or celestial reading, such as can be seen in some tonalli glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

p.^o matlaltzīcatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Pedro Matlaltzincatl (or Pedro Matlatzincatl)

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:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tripartite

Keywords:

valle de Toluca, Matlatzincas, etnicidad

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matlatzinca, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatzinca
Matlatzinco, the name for the Toluca valley, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatzinco
matlal(in), a blue-green color or a flower that color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlalin-0
matla(tl), a net, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl
-catl (affiliation), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una persona de la cultura Matlatzinca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=292st=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: