Mizquipolcatl (MH729r)

Mizquipolcatl (MH729r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Mizquipolcatl (“Person from Mizquipolco”) is attested here are pertaining to a man. It shows a frontal view of a mesquite (mizquitl) tree. It seems to be drawn in a way that conveys it is large (-pol-). The -catl ending to the name (an affiliation suffix) is not 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

árboles mesquites, 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, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol
-catl (affiliation suffix), person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Mizquipolco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&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).

Orthography:

"p" for b, u, or v

intrusive "h" or "hu"

Historical Contextualizing Image: