Tlemacuex (MH632r)

Tlemacuex (MH632r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tlemacuex (perhaps "Flame-Colored Bracelet," attested here as a man's name) shows a row of beads (cuecuextli) with a hand above (suggesting bracelet, macuextli), and a group of flames (tletl) to the right of the hand.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia antigua y de la conquista de México: 1.pte. (1880), 93, says of the name Tlemacuex: "de tletl, fuego, pulsera de color encendido como de fuego."

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio
tlemacuex

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Tlemacuex

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

curving, curvy, curved

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

right to left

Keywords:

fire, flames, hands, fuego, flamas, pulseras, manos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
ma(itl), hand, https_--nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
cuecuex(tli), a cord with stone beads, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuecuextli
macuex(tli), bracelet with precious stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Fuego-Pulsera (pulsera de color encendido como de fuego)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=346&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: