Tlacanenel (MH813v)

Tlacanenel (MH813v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacanenel (perhaps “Mixed Group of People”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a group of four heads of men, all in profile, with three looking toward the viewer’s left, and a larger head looking toward the viewer’s right. Two of the heads are connected by a line.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Perhaps the combination of some facing left and one facing right helps convey the “mixed” nature of the group. Tlaca- refers to people. There was an illustrious name of someone from the past, Tlacaneneltzin, and so perhaps when this man was a boy, his parents named him after the important personage. A Tlacaneneltzin was associated with a place called Tlatocan and shown in a pictorial manuscript from Calpan (see the upper right corner of the first image on this page: https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/calpan/073_01 -- this is part of a manuscript called "Confirmación de Elecciones en Calpan (BNF_073)," published by TLACHIA).

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:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing left

facing right

Keywords:

personas, gente, grupos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaca(tl), person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
tlanenel, mixed things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlanenel
nenelihui, to be mixed, or inanimate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenelihui
neneliuhtica, mixed group, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neneliuhtica

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Un Grupo Mixto de Personas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 813v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=701&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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