Texoch (MH632v)

Texoch (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Texoch (perhaps “Stone Flower,” a medicinal plant, attested here as a woman’s name) shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with its usual curly ends and its diagonal stripes that alternate dark and yellow across its middle section. Coming up from the stone is a flower (xochitl) with three visible petals and what seem to be two pistils or stamens coming off the top, leaning left and leaning right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A very beautiful example of the texochitl, a medicinal plant, appears in Book 11, folio 141v, of the Florentine Codex. See the Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/141v/images/76c72961-104.... In that painting, the flowering plant also sits on a stone glyph.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

fran.ca
texoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisca Texoco

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
tripartite
diagonal or angled
frontal view
horizontal
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

flores, piedras, gente, nombres de mujeres, viudas

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

texoch(itl), a medicinal plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texochitl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flores de la Gente, o Flores en Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347&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: 

Teoxoch (MH492r)

Teoxoch (MH524v)

Xochiteotl (MH486r)