Xiuhcozcatl (MH498v)

Xiuhcozcatl (MH498v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Xiuhcozcatl (here, attested as a man's name) shows a necklace (cozcatl) with beads. The beads could be green or turquoise (xihuitl)].

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

Color names

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

necklaces, collares, cuentas, beads, turquesas, nombres de hombres

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book Notes:

These beads are located in the Regional Museum of Guadalajara. The strings are not the originals. Presumably these strands represent chalchihuitl (green) and xihuitl (turquoise), but the distinction between blue and green is not always hard and fast. (Photo by Stephanie Wood, 4 February 2025.)

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar de Turquesa, o Collar Verde

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=76&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).

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