Xochitl Cuepon (MH725v)

Xochitl Cuepon (MH725v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitl Cuepon (“The Flower Bloomed”) shows a frontal view of a single, upright flower (xochitl) with three petals at the top, a three-part base, and one leaf on each side, right and left. There is no added visual effect that says that it bloomed (cueponi), but it clearly has.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Many flowers are portrayed with three upper petals in the glyphs that come from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, almost as though it was the generic way to draw a flower when attention to detail was not required.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gatalena xochilcuepō

Gloss Normalization:

Catalina Xochitl Cuepon

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

tripartite

Keywords:

flores, florecer, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xoch(itl), a flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cueponi, to blossom, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueponi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Flor Floreció

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=529&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:

"e" for i

"g" for c, q, or x

"l" for tl

Historical Contextualizing Image: