Xochipan (MH835v)

Xochipan (MH835v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochipan (perhaps “In the Flowers” or “Flower-Flag”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright, rectangular flag (panitl or pamitl) with two flowers on it–an example of visual reduplication.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If this is a Flower-Flag, then the compound would be fully logographic. A couple of other glyphs for the name Xochipan also include more than one flower, which may be a visual reduplication that suggests a plural. See some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo xochipā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xochipan

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)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

flores, banderas, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor-Bandera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 835v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=745&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: 

Xochipan (MH518v)

Xochipan (MH525r)

Xochipan (MH604v)