Tozihuitl (MH488v)

Tozihuitl (MH488v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozihuitl (“Yellow Parrot Feathers,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a human hand holding up two feathers.

Added Analysis:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

parthasal tozihuitl

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Tozihuitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

feathers, plumas, yellow, amarillo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toztli, a yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli.
ihuitl, feathers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ihuitl.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Plumas de Loro Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 488v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=56&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: