Tzilin (MH695v)

Tzilin (MH695v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzilin (perhaps “The Bell Rang”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a large black bell of the type that was installed in Christian churches. The bell has some (perhaps imprinted) subtle designs, as well as a horizontal white line at about the middle. The name Tzilin derives from the verb tzilini, for a bell to ring.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

For other personal names that involve a truncated form of the verb tzilini, see some examples below. Nahuas had smaller bells of their own prior to contact with Europeans, such as the coyolli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

toribio tzilli

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Tzilin

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous Christianity)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

campanas, campanillas, metales, iglesias, religión cristiana, arquitectura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzilini, for a bell to ring or chime, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzilini
coyol(li), jingle bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Sonó la Campana

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 695v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=471&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).

Orthography: 
"ll" for l
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tzilin (MH486r)