Tlacaneneltzin (MH538r)

Tlacaneneltzin (MH538r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacaneneltzin ("Mixed Group of People," attested here as a man's name), shows the heads of three men, all in profile, two facing toward the viewer's right and one facing left. Those on the left have their mouths open, as though conversing.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Having a reverential suffix on this name may suggest that the person with this name is an important figure in his town. But another way to read it is that it was an illustrious name of someone from the past, and when this man was a boy, his parents named him after the important personage. There is a Tlacaneneltzin 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:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo tlacaneneltzin

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Tlacaneneltzin

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

people, gente, heads, personas, cabezas, caras, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaca(tl), person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
neneliuhtica, mixed group, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neneliuhtica
-tzin (reverential suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Un Grupo Mixto de Personas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 538r, 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: