Xochititlancalqui (MH711v)

Xochititlancalqui (MH711v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the personal name or title, Xochititlancalqui (perhaps, “He Has a House of Xochititlan”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of a building or house (calli) with a red (probably wooden) lintel and red vertical beams supporting the lintel and framing the entrance. The base of each upright beam is black. In front of the house is a large yellow flower with a stem and leaf. The yellow flower has three visible petals. On the roof of the house are three more flowers of a different kind, more rounded, and white with a small amount of red. These petals also have black hash marks.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection contains a number of "names" of people who "reside at" or have a house at a certain place, such as this glyph shows. Not surprisingly, a calli is a prominent feature. See below.

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

multidirectional

Keywords:

flores, casas, edificios, nombres de hombres, títulos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
-titlan (locative suffix), next to, near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-calqui, inhabitant, one who lives at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calqui
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

flores, casas, edificios, nombres de hombres, títulos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=501&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: