Xochipan (MH604v)

Xochipan (MH604v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnic/pueblo affiliation, Xochipan ("In the Flowers"), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a flower (xochitl) in a frontal view. It is contained within an upright banner (panitl). The flower has four petals and a center, making it a quincunx. The flag faces toward the viewer's right. The flag seems to be a phonetic indicator for the preposition, "in," and does not literally refer to a flag.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This flower is reminiscent of the matlalin flower, which can also have four petals, although it can be found with three. The quincunx may suggest a cosmic or celestial significance, as might its precious blue color. See below for some comparisons with tonalli (day, sun, animating force).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

alesandre xochipā

Gloss Normalization: 

Alejandro Xochipan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Celestial Phenomena
Flags, banners
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Names (places)
Plants, Flora
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

flores, quincunce

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En la Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 604v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=291&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: 

matlalin (MH518v)

matlalin (MH486r)

Atonal (MH554v)

Tonal (MH528v)

tonalli (MH559v)