Yancuictlan (Mdz43r)

Yancuictlan (Mdz43r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Yancuictlan has two parts. The top part is a white rectangle, seemingly a piece of fine, new cloth, meant to convey the word yancuic, new. The white rectangle is a simple black-line drawing, with another rectangle inside it. The other principal component is a pair of upper front teeth, white with red gums. The word for teeth (tlantli) provides the phonetic value -tlan (place), for the locative suffix.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The reading of "fine cloth" draws from Brotherston and Brokaw's reading of a similar rectangle in the glyph for Teteotlan on folio 46 recto. See their book Footprints through Time: Mexican Pictorial Manuscripts (Bloomington, Indiana, 1997). See also some other glyphs for types of textiles, below.

The contemporary spelling of this town is Yanhuitlan; it is in the state of Morelos.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yancuitlan.pu^o

Gloss Normalization:

Yancuictlan, pueblo (Yanhuitlan, today)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (visual but silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

new, nuevo, telas, fabric, tooth, teeth, dientes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yancuic, new, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yancuic
tlan(tli), tooth/teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
-tlan (locative suffix), by, near, among, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 43 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 96 of 188.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).