Toztli Icuil (MH498v)

Toztli Icuil (MH498v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Toztli Icuil (if the two i's have elided in the gloss) is attested here as a man's name. It shows a feather, likely the feather of the yellow parrot (toztli). The feather is upright with a white vane and short lines to indicate downy barbs. Three curls (two to the viewer's right of the feather and one on the left) seem to provide the cuil part of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The spiraling shapes are much like the curls or scrolls on the glyph for a painting or a piece of writing (tlacuilolli). The verb icuiloa means to write or paint. The cuil root could have something to do with curves or squiggles (letters?). If the cuil is a possessed noun, then the glyph could be read as a phrase, the feather's curl or the yellow parrot's curl, if the feather stands for the bird. The spirals seem to suggest movement, and so perhaps the glyph suggests that the feather spins.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro
toztlicuil

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Toztlicuil (or perhaps Pedro Toztli Icuil)

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

Syntax:

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Feathers

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing left

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

oval (see also leaf shaped)

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

feathers, plumas, volutas, volutes, swirls, curls

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli
icuiloa, to write or paint, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuiloa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Espiral de la Pluma del Loro Amarillo, o El Espiral del Loro Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=76&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: