Tlamauhcatl (MH741v)

Tlamauhcatl (MH741v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tlamauhcatl (“Person from Tlamauhco”) is attested here as referring to a man. The glyph shows the original glyph for the starry or stellar eye (ixtli), which can stand for verbs relating to knowing, ixmati or mati, or imati (to be wise), which feed into this interesting form Tlamauh- that is the root of the place name for which this person has (or had) an affiliation.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

josep. tlamaocatl /

Gloss Normalization:

José Tlamauhcatl (or José Tlamaocatl)

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Gender (male)

Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Keywords:

ojos, eyes, stars, estrellas, conocimiento, sabiduría, tlamao, tlamauh, nombres de lugares, barrios, topónimos, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlamauh, wise one, knowledgeable person, or possibly sorcerer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
tlamauh(tli), crazed, berzerk, or infected, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauhtli
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
ixtlamati, to be wise, prudent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtlamati
tlamati, to know something, to jest, or to practice "sorcery" (verb), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamati
tlamatini, a sage, wise person, scholar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamatini
tlama, someone knowledgeable, also a medico, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlama-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tlamauhco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 741v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=561&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: