Totlalpan (MH517v)

Totlalpan (MH517v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name (or perhaps the person's place of origin, given the locative suffix -pan), Totlalpan, is a square. The heart of this name, tlalli, is represented here in a bird's eye view, as the square suggests a parcel of land. The possessor (To-) is not shown visually, nor is the locative suffix (-pan). But the name can be translated "On Our Land."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tlalli glyph typically is a horizontal rectangle with u-shapes and dots (suggesting cultivation), and it can be segmented (suggesting individually-worked parcels), with each of those segments painted alternating colors. At least, this is the norm in the Codex Mendoza. In many town maps, parcels such as tlalli and milli will be like this one, showing a simple rectangle. Sometimes, in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, the tlalli will be divided diagonally or show furrows. See below for examples that illustrate this varying iconography for these glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o totlalpā

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Totlalpan

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

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

rectangular

Keywords:

lands, tierras, parcels, parcelas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
to-, 1st per plural possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/to1
-pan, on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En Nuestra Tierra

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 517v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=114&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: