Tlatzcan (MH640r)

Tlatzcan (MH640r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatzcan ("Cypress Tree") shows a vertical tree with a leader and two branches. Each branch is covered with short straight lines, representing the foliage. The trunk is short. No visible roots are included.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlatzca

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlatzcan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spiky
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

tree, árbol, el ciprés

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlatzcan, cypress tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzcan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ciprés

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 640r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=362st=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: