Tozquecholtzin (MH688v)

Tozquecholtzin (MH688v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozquecholtzin (perhaps “Yellow Swan,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird (probably the quecholli, or roseate swan) in a dance-like position, with its right wing raised higher than its left wing. On its head is a single feather, apparently from the toztli (yellow parrot). Does this make the bird a yellow swan, or is this a different bird altogether?

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The significance of the toztli feather is notable. Just this one feather above the bird is recognizable enough to bring forth the Toz- start to the name. It is not just any feather. See the Tozquecholtzin glyph below, too.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Sancho tozquecholzin

Gloss Normalization:

Sancho Tozquecholtzin

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-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:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

birds, feathers, pájaros, plumas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow-headed Amazon (bird), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
quechol(li), roseate swan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quecholli-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 688v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=457&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: