Xochipal (MH492r)

Xochipal (MH492r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochipal (attested as female here) features an upright flower (xochitl). The flower has a stem and tripartite sepal. It also has a tripartite shape to the petals, and it has two anthers protruding from the top.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The dictionary term xochipal refers to a known fruit, such as a peach or an apricot, but that is not what we are seeing, unless the flower is from one of those trees. So, if a fruit is not the name for this woman, then her name might be something like By Means of Flowers, adding the meaning of -ipal (by means of) to flower (xochi-). Flower shapes vary considerably, whether within the Codex Mendoza or between that manuscript and others. The three-part petal and two anthers does recur somewhat (see below)

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

magthallena xochipal

Gloss Normalization: 

Magdalena Xochipal

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
vertical, upright
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

xochipal, a peach or apricot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochipal
xochitl, flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
ipal, by means of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ipal

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 492r, World Digital Library,
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=63&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: 
See Also: 

xochitl (Mdz27r)

Cocoztic (MH518v)