Maxochitl (MH877r)

Maxochitl (MH877r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Maxochitli (perhaps “Hand-held Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bouquet of three flowers that seem to be wrapped, tied in the middle, and have some stems or roots hanging loose at the bottom.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Macxochitl may be a variant spelling; see the Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 198v., which seems to have several examples much like this item. Hand-held flower arrangements were primarily used for dancing, judging from iconographic examples of dancers. See two other Maxochitl glyphs below. Note how this gloss adds as “i” to the end of Maxochitl, which could be a variant or an error.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo maxochitli

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Mateo Maxochitli

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

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)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

tripartite

Keywords:

flores, manos, nombres de hombres

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:

literalmente, Mano-Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 877r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=826&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:

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: