Motelchihui (MH729r)

Motelchihui (MH729r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Motelchihui (perhaps “He Belittles Himself”) is attested here as a man’s name. It is very similar to the name of don Andres Motelchiuh, a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the time of the early Spanish colonization of Mexico. The glyph here shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. His hair is wild.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph is much like the one above it, which is for the name Cuapole, and it may well be that the tlacuilo made a mistake, and gave Motelcihui the same glyph.

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)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

menospreciarse, pelo, cabello, cabeza, despeinado, desordenado, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Motelchiuh, a ruler of Tenochtitlan in the sixteenth century, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/motelchiuh

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Se Menosprecia

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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: