Miquiz (MH677v)

Miquiz (MH677v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Miquiz (“Death”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. His eyes are closed, and his hair is wispy and standing out. He is deceased, a semantic indicator for the concept of death (miquiztli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Hieroglyphs for death in this manuscript more typically show a skull (below). One other glyph, for example, shows a shrouded corpse. The latter is more typical in the Codex Mendoza in its hieroglyphs for “corpse” or “the deceased” (micqui). Another option for micqui in that manuscript is the use of a nude body laid out.

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: 
Death, decay, decomposition
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing left
Keywords: 

muerte, muerto, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

miquiz(tli), death, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miquiztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Muerte

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=435&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: 

Miquiz (MH518r)

Miquiz (MH520r)

Miquiz (MH642v)

Miquiz (MH624r)

micqui (Mdz49r)

micqui (Mdz43r)

micqui (Mdz52r)

micqui (Mdz10v)

micqui (Mdz12r)