Ocoxochitl (MH778r)

Ocoxochitl (MH778r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocoxochitl (a medicinal plant, but literally, "Pitch Pine Flower") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows two small branches with leaves. At the top of each branch is a squiggly line, and at the bottom of the plant another one appears. The appearance of these plant features coincide better with a reading of the name as a medicinal plant, rather than the flower of a pitch pine.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

andres.ocoxochitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Andrés Ocoxochitl

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)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
frontal view
Keywords: 

plantas, medicinas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ocoxoch(itl), a medicinal plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocoxochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(planta medicinal)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 778r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=630&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: 
See Also: 

xochitl (MH483r)