Nextlahual (MH653r)

Nextlahual (MH653r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nextlahual ("Sacrificial Offering") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph just shows an empty square, perhaps as a disguise and a means of avoiding a visual that might alarm the nearby friars. They would not be pleased to know what nextlahualli really meant (if they did not already know).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Two possibilities for this visual could be amatl (paper), which could have a ritual role, or cuachtli (a cloth). See a couple of examples, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys nextlaval

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Nextlahual

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Paper

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

trapezoidal

Keywords:

ofrendas, sacrificio, papel, algodón, sangre, hule, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

nextlahual(li), a sacrificial offering, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nextlahualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Ofrenda

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 653r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=388&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: