Chimalayauh (MH496r)

Chimalayauh (MH496r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chimalayauh (here, attested as a man's name) shows a war shield (chimalli) with concentric circles, a simplified cuexyo design in the middle, and feathers hanging below the lower half of the shield. The -ayauh part of the name (presumably from ayatl, cloak) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fran^co
chimalayauh

Gloss Normalization:

Francisco Chimalayauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

U-shapes (any direction)

curving, curvy, curved

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Keywords:

shields, escudos, plumas, feathers, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
aya(tl), cloak, or vapor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Escudo-Niebla

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 496r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=71&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: