Xipan (MH543v)

Xipan (MH543v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This white and green painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Xipan is attested here as a man's name. The flag (panitl or pamitl) is tall, white, and rectangular. Coming off the right edge of the banner and the post are four green leaves (xihuitl). These provide the special phonetic syllable "xi," which Juan José Batalla Rosado (2021, 477) discusses.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This may be the same name held by a famous Xipantecuhtli (or Xipan, a lord), who went out from Tlaxcala to meet Hernando Cortés on his march inland in 1519.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo xipā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xipan

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: 
noun(s)
xi syllable from xihuitl
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Feathers
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

banderas, hojas verdes, nombres de hombres

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

xihu(itl), turquoise, green, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
pan(itl) or pam(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
Xipantecuhtli, famous name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xipantecuhtli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=166&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: