Xotlac (MH852v)

Xotlac (MH852v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xotlac (“Fully Blossoming and Open Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright flower with three visible petals and three anthers emerging from the top. These have little circles at their highest point. Some additional short lines also come off the top of the flower. The flower has a tripartite stem base.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While flowers are a significant theme in early Nahua culture, this is the first xotlac glyph entering this digital collection with over six thousand glyphs, elements, and examples of iconography so far. But there is another Xotlac name on this same page. Far more common are various representations of xochitl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gōçalo xotlac

Gloss Normalization: 

Gonzalo Xotlac

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
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
tripartite
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

flores, abrotadas, abiertas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

xotlac, a fully blossoming flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xotlac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor Abrotada y Abierta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 852v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=777&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

xochitl (Mdz23r)

xochitl (Mdz10r)

xochitl (Mdz27r)

xochitl (MH485r)

xochitl (CQ)