Xochitlahua (MH758v)

Xochitlahua (MH758v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

Description: This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitlahua ("Possessor of a Flower Garden") is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Ceramics, Pottery

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

flores, jardines, poseedor, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochitla, a flower garden, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitla
-hua (a possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tiene Jardín de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: