Teocuitlatequitl (MH559v)

Teocuitlatequitl (MH559v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or occupation Teocuitlatequitl (“Gold Worker,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a gold (teocuitlatl) coin with the number 4 written on it. This would be a representation of a half of a peso, worth four reales in Spanish (or four tomines, in Nahuatl). The -tequitl (work) part of the name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See our Mapas Project for an example of the total value of a tribute payment in coin in Coyoacan in the sixteenth century. A cross on a coin would mean it was worth 8 tomines. Sometimes, alternatively, the number 8 was drawn on pesos, such as can be seen in Jesús Barrientos' study of the Codex Sierra-Texupan (2019). For small numbers of tomines, one to four dots might be drawn on a real or tomin coin.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pablo - teocuitlateguitl

Gloss Normalization:

Pablo Teocuitlatequitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Money, Coins, Prices

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Keywords:

coins, money, monedas, dinero, gold, oro, cuatro tomines

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teocuitla(tl), gold, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl
tequi(tl), work, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Orfebre

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 559v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=198&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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