Xochiquen (MH774r)

Xochiquen (MH774r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiquen (“Flowery-Garment,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a square ritual bib or vestment (quemitl) with flowers (xochitl) on it.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o xochi que

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Xochiquen

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

textiles, rituales, religion indígena, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Xochiquen, a personal name and a flowery ritual bib, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochiquen

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Prenda de Pecho con Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 774r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=622&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).

Orthography:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: