Xochitlapal (MH779r)

Xochitlapal (MH779r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitlapal (perhaps “Flower’s Leaf” or “Red Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a flower with an especially large leaf (atlapalli) on one side (-tlapal).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

No color is used in the creation of this glyph, so one cannot know with certainly if red (tlapalli) is intended. If so, then this glyph is partly phonetic, with the leaf/side indicating the color red. Tlapalaztatl and Tlapalhuauh (below) are examples of glyphs that include the element -tlapal to refer to the color red, but they are colored red in those parts, which helps with the interpretation. Tlapalihuitl may refer to a red feather, but it is only shown in a black-line drawing. This digital collection does include a personal name glossed Xochiatlapal, which features a flower and a leaf, and more clearly seems to refer to the leaf, considering the “a” in the middle of the name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

mathe^o xochitlapal

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Xochitlapal

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic possibilities

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Color names

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

flores, hojas, nombres de colores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
-tlapal, on a side, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapal
tlapal(li), paint, dye, color, red, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli
atlapal(li), a leaf or a bird’s wing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atlapalli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=632&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:

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: