Mizquipolcatl (MH685v)

Mizquipolcatl (MH685v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Mizquipolcatl (“One from Mizquipolco”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a mesquite mizquitl tree. Below the tree is swirling water (atl), which serves as a phonetic indicator for the -catl affiliation suffix. The -pol- (large) part of the name is not necessarily shown visually.

Description, 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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

barrios, pueblos, afiliación, etnicidad, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mizqui(tl), mesquite tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
-pol, large or wretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol
-catl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Mizquipolco)

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 685v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=451&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: