Tlecocoz (MH495v)

Tlecocoz (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlecocoz (Flame-Yellow Butterfly) is attested here as a man's name. It shows two vertical, thick volutes (curling to the left), perhaps meant to be flames.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Insects & Bugs
Color names
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

tlecocoz, a flame-yellow butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecocoz
tle(tl), flame, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
coztic, yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic

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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: