Xalpancalqui (MH693r)

Xalpancalqui (MH693r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or reference to origin, Xalpancalqui (“Inhabitant of Xalpan”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a profile view of a house (calli) facing toward the viewer’s right. At the entrance, as though suspended in air above a horizontal line, is a group of dots. These dots are apparently meant to represent sand (xalli). The -pan- and the -qui are not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Sand (xalli) is very adequately depicted here when compared with other glyphs or elements for sand. The -cal-, too. In the Codex Mendoza, most examples of calli are shown in profile. In the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, a couple of decades after the Mendoza, houses are increasingly shown in a frontal view–probably owing to the influence European artistic methods. See below for other similar constructions involving the -calqui (resident of) suffix.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys xalpacalgui

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Xalpancalqui

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

casas, edificios, arena, nombres de lugares, barrios, pueblos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
-pan (locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-calqui, inhabitant or one who lives at…, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Residente de Xalpan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 693r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=466&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

"y" for i

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: