Mixpan (MH797v)

Mixpan (MH797v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mixpan (perhaps “Before You” or “Cloud-Flag”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rising group of clouds (mixtli) and, below the clouds, an upright rectangular flag (panitl or pamitl) that is facing toward the viewer’s right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph could be literal, and refer to a flag decorated with clouds, but the drawing does not have the clouds directly on the flag, and designs have been painted right on flags in other glyphs, such as the Ayapan which has a water pattern on the top half and a mesh pattern (like the open weave of ayatl) on the lower half. So, perhaps Mixpan is phonetically rendered and meant to say “Before You,” “In Your Presence,” or a greeting.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio mixpā

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Mixpan

Gloss 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: 
adverb
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

nubes, banderas, adverbio, nombres de hombres

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

mix(tli), clouds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mixtli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
mixpantzinco, before you, or a greeting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mixpantzinco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ante Usted, o Nube-Bandera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 797v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=669&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: 

Mixcoatl (MH737v)

panitl (Mdz55r)

Ayapan (MH745r)