Xicotencatl (MH515r)

Xicotencatl (MH515r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xicotencatl (attested here as held by a man) features a bee (xicotli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The remainder of the name (-tencatl) is not shown visually. The bee has stripes of varying thickness around its body and across its wings. An eye, two legs, and two antennae are visible. What may be a single mandible is extra long and spiraling.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Xicotencatl II was the name of a famous Tlaxcallan figure at the time of the Spanish invasion. He was also called Xicotencatl The Younger and Xicotencatl II Axayacatl. He never fully trusted the Spaniards and would plot a resistance, but he died in 1521.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Jua^o xicotencatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Juan Xicotencatl

Gloss/Text 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:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Insects/Bugs

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

pointed (see also spiky)

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xico(tli), bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xicotli
ten(tli), lip-mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-catl, a suffix signifying affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 515r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=109&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: