Michihuauh (MH619r)

Michihuauh (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Michihuauh is attested here as a woman's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Cakes of michihuauhtli (also called chicalotl) were among the foods Motecuhzoma ate when refraining from excesses. See Alfredo López Austin, Monte Sagrado (2009), 517.

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

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Keywords:

amaranto, bledos, amaranth, food, comida, plantas, semillas, seeds

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

michihuauh(tli), a type of amaranth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michihuauhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Los Bledos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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: