xochitl (MH485r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This element for flower (xochitl) has been carved from the compound sign for the personal name, Yaoxochitl. The flower is drawn in black ink and not colored. It has a tripartite sepal that would have connected to a stem, some texturing, and perhaps four petals at the top.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Keywords:
flowers, flores
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
xochitl, flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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).
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