Metlacatl (MH491r)

Metlacatl (MH491r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the glyph for the personal name Metlacatl features a branch (penca, in Spanish) of a maguey plant (metl). It is horizontal, pointing toward the viewer's right. It is covered with thorns or spines.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tlacatl (person) part of this name is not shown visuall, although the name refers to a man (baptized Agustín), who is shown in the contextualizing image.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

augustin metlacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Agustín Metlacatl

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

horizontal

spiny

Keywords:

magueyes, agaves

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

me(tl), maguey plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
tlaca(tl), a person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=61&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: