Tocpacxochiuh (MH718r)

Tocpacxochiuh (MH718r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Tocpaxochiuh (“Our Crown of Flowers”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a bird’s eye view of a circular garland of flowers that was probably worn on someone’s head. The possessive pronoun (to-, our) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name seems rare, although one iconographic example from the Florentine Codex shows a man wearing flowers on his head (see below), and another image (from Book 11, folio 198v) shows flower garlands--both long like Hawaiian leis and like floral crowns--that were made along with other items that involved flowers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o. tocpacxochiuh

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Pedro Tocpacxochiuh

Gloss/Text 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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

Keywords:

flores, guirnalda, corona, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

icpacxochiuh, a garland or crown of flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icpacxochitl
to-, first person plural possessive pronoun, “our,” https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
-icpac, on top, over, or above, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icpac
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Nuestra Corona de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 718r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=514&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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