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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

miguel maxochitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Miguel Maxochitl

Gloss 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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cuicamaxochitl (MH517v)