Toztli Icuil (MH686v)

Toztli Icuil (MH686v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Toztli Icuil (perhaps “Yellow Parrot Writes,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a feather that must pertain to a Yellow-headed Amazon parrot (toztli). Below the feather is a small, horizontal rectangle that seems to be a piece of paper with symbolic alphabetic writing or a design. This must represent the “Icuil” part of the name, which seems to be short for icuiloa, to write or paint.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph was painted over a different glyph, which must have been a mistake, because it was painted over in white–while still being somewhat visible. Folio 498 verso of this same manuscript has another glyph for this same name. In that example (below) the feather has three scrolls coming up from its base.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro toztlicuil

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Toztli Icuil

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:

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Paper

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

pájaros, loros, plumas, escritura, papel, diseños, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), Yellow-headed Amazon 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:

Loro Amarillo Que Escribe

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=453&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: