Xopanazcatl (MH659r)

Xopanazcatl (MH659r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xopanazcatl (“Summer Ant”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows an ant in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. Its head is seemingly large for its body. Two legs are showing, and one is lifted, as though the insect is in motion. The body has stripes running perpendicular to the length of the ant. There are no particular visual indicators for Xopan- start to the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This version of the name for Summer Ant (Xopanazcatl) stands out as somewhat unusual. The norm is simply Azcatl. See below for examples.

The man's first name, Bernardino, is fairly rare in this collection, too, despite having so very many names coming from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. This name may be owing to an admiration for Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, an educator-friar who arrived in Mexico in 1529 (d. 1590), learned Nahuatl well, and collaborated with Nahuas in creating the encyclopedic Florentine Codex. See the Digital Florentine Codex created and published by the Getty Research Institute.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

vernardino xopanazcatl

Gloss Normalization:

Bernardino Xopanazcatl

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

visible movement

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Keywords:

hormigas, verano, estaciones del año

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xopan, summertime, green time of year, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xopan
azca(tl), ant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/azcatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hormiga de Verano

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 659r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=398&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 b

Historical Contextualizing Image: