Tianquiztenco (MH541r)

Tianquiztenco (MH541r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name, Tianquiztenco ("At the Edge of the Market"). The town is probably famous for its market (tianquiztli). The detail of this glyph is beautifully drawn, including four concentric circles that border a segmented outer ring with small circles and short parallel lines cutting across this ring. Inside the center of the space the viewer sees a bird's eye view of sixteen footprints, a semantic representation of the movement of people.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

San fran^co tianguis...

Gloss Normalization:

San Francisco Tianquiztenco

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Markets, Commerce, Economy

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

quincunx or quatrefoil

symmetry

Keywords:

mercados, tianguis, tianquiztli, círculos, huellas, orrilas, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tianquiz(tli), market, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tianquiztli
-tenco, at the edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenco

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 541r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=115&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: