Mizquipolcatl (MH741v)

Mizquipolcatl (MH741v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mizquipolcatl (“Person from Mizquipolco”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph has an X-shape cross, and in the spaces the X creates are small circles filled in with black paint or ink. This forms a quincunx, but the meaning and beyond that, and how it relates to the mesquite tree is unclear. The second part of the name -pol- may be used to intend "large," in reference to the tree. The size, the mesquite, and the -catl (affiliation suffix), are apparently not be shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A town named Mizquipolco appears in the book about the Padrones of Tlaxcala (1987, 65) published by Teresa Rojas Rabiela. The mesquite tree is well attested in Nahuatl hieroglyphs; see some examples below.

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:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

quincunx or quatrefoil

cross (x)

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)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 741v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=561&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).

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