Chimalpan (MH495v)

Chimalpan (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Chimalpan shows a war shield (chimalli) with a cuexyo design. This is the name of a barrio.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

chimalpan
✝︎

Gloss Normalization:

Chimalpan

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

circle, circular or rounded

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

U-shapes (any direction)

Keywords:

shields, rodelas, escudos, barrios, topónimos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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).