xochitl (MH485r)

xochitl (MH485r)
Element from a Compound

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: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Plants, Flora
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
tripartite
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

flowers, flores

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Yaoxochitl (MH485r)