Matlaxipanecatl (MH711v)

Matlaxipanecatl (MH711v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Matlaxipanecatl (“Person from Matlaxipan”), shows a net (matlatl) container and, above that, a green plant (perhaps the matlaxihuitl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Perhaps the place name was originally Matlaxiuhpan.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

green (light)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

frontal view

woven

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

redes, plantas, hierbas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

matla(tl), net, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlatl
xihui(tl), herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl
matlaxihui(tl), an herb that grows in a way where it gets interwoven like a net, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlaxihuitl
matlaxiquipil(li), a bag of nets, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlaxiquipilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Matlaxipan)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=501&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).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: