Yollo (MH639v)

Yollo (MH639v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yollo ("Heart") is an upright heart that shows European stylistic influences. It has shading on the right side, which gives it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

For a more Nahua style heart, see the examples below that come from the earlier Codex Mendoza (c. 1541).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

hearts, corazones, nombres de hombres

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

yollo(tl), heart, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yollotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Corazón

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=361st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

yollotl (Mdz65r)

yollotl (Mdz16v)