Yohualxoch (MH885v)

Yohualxoch (MH885v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohualxochitl (perhaps “Night Flower”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a circle with the interior painted black. This represents “night” (yohualli). The fact that it is a circle just might be underscoring night with a near homophone for “round” (yahualli). Above the black circle is a flower (xochitl) with a base and three visible petals.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs for night from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco have evolved and simplified from the yohualli of the Codex Mendoza. But a circle filled with black or a dark color cuts across the decades.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luysa yovalxoch

Gloss Normalization:

Luisa Yohualxoch

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

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

noche, flores, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohual(li), night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Flor de Noche

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 885v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=843&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

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: