Temacxochitl (MH783v)

Temacxochitl (MH783v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Temacxochitl (“Handheld Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a profile view of a left hand holding a bouquet of flowers that has been wrapped at the stems. The bouquet has three layers of petals. The flowers are not clearly distinguishable.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The inclusion of a "c" after "ma" (for -macxochitl) is also found in the "hand flowers" in the Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 198v., which seems to have several examples much like this item. The omission of the "c" is common in several examples of these devices elsewhere in this collection. The “i” on the end of xochitl in the gloss here is an archaic spelling, only rarely found in this manuscript from 1560. This flower device appears to be of the kind that might be held during dances. For other examples, see below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text 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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

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:

flores, manos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temac, in someone’s hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temac
xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 783v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=661&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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