Quizqui (MH647r)

Quizqui (MH647r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Quizqui ("One Who Goes Out") shows a simplified building entrance that has a T-shaped entrance of two perpendicular red beams, shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. The vertical beam has a base that is painted black about a third of the way up, and then it is red the rest of the way. Three alternating footprints--in a bird's eye view--come out of this building entrance and turn to go around the back of the entrance and on upward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While the glyph has two components, it really has one semantic reading, which points to a person (of the footprints) who comes out or goes out (recalling the verb quiza) of a building. The way the footprints alternate suggests movement across a landscape.

Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro quizqui

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Quizqui

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)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
bird's eye view
profile view
rectangular
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

quiza, to go out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiza
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Sale

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&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: 

quetza (Mdz30r)

pano (Mdz13r)

temo (MH487r)

calli (Mdz16r)

Quizqui (MH784v)