Maxochitl (MH493v)

Maxochitl (MH493v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Miguel Maxochitl (perhaps "Handheld Flower Device") includes a hand (maitl) holding an arrangement of flowers (xochitl). The drawing shows two layers of flowers, one above the other, and the stems appear to be bound or tied together. There is also a round shape at the bottom of the bouquet, below the hand.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The maxochitl is a hand-held device that was probably used in rituals or dancing, perhaps like the feather or flower fans. Macxochitl may be a variant spelling; see the Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 198v., which seems to have several examples much like this item.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

miguel maxochitl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Miguel Maxochitl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

flores, flowers, hands, manos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ma(itl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flores de Mano

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 493r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=66&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).

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