Tianquiznahuacatl (MH688v)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tianquiznahuacatl (“Person from Tianquiznahuac”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a circle with footprints, which is one of the typical glyphs for tianquiztli (marketplace).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Still today in Mexico there is a Tianquiznahuac; its early name was San Miguel Tecpan Tianquiznahuac, a part of Cholula. See: Lori Boornazian Diel, “Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World,” Hispanic Issues On Line 7 (2010), 148.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

locative (visual not silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Markets, Commerce, Economy

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

circle, circular or rounded

Keywords:

mercados, tianguises, huellas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tianquiz(tli), marketplace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tianquiztli
-nahuac, near to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 688v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=457&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).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image:

Tianquiznahuacatl (MH688v)

Tianquiznahuacatl (MH688v)

Tianquiztenco (MH815v)

Tianquiztenco (MH778r)

Tianquiztenco (MH708v)

tianquiztli (MH591r)

tianquiztli (MH523v)