Tecuhmicqui (MH491v)

Tecuhmicqui (MH491v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecuhmicqui (here, attested as male) has two prominent elements. One is the diadem that represents the word for lord [tecuhtli. It is shown here in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The diadem has pattern of mesh-like intersecting lines across the main part, and it has a tie at the back. The other element, to the right of the diadem, is a human eye that is closed, representing a dead person (micqui). The closed eye has prominent lashes across the bottom of the eye, suggesting the eyelid is closed.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The effect of this name might be Lord-Deceased. For other examples of diadems representing the word tecuhtli, see below. To compare the closed eye with an open one from this same codex, see also below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pernertino tecuhmiq~

Gloss Normalization:

Bernardino Tecuhmicqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Death, decay, decomposition

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

facing right

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

eyes, ojos, diadems, diademas, crowns, coronas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuhtli, a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Señor Muerto

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=62&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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