Ce Xochitl (MH501r)

Ce Xochitl (MH501r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Ce Xochitl (here, attested as a man’s name) shows one (ce) flower (xochitl). This is a date that includes a day sign. The flower is upright with a stem, a base, and a blossom on top. The flower has hash marks at the top suggesting multiple petals or another type of texturing. Coming up from the very top of the flower is a short line that is a notation for the number one. The variation in the color of the ink suggests that it was added after the fact.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This day sign comes from the tonalpohualli, the 260-day divinatory calendar. Calendrics figure importantly in Nahuas' religious views of the cosmos. Dates in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco diverge somewhat from calendrical representations from earlier codices. The numbers sometimes drop away, and sometimes they are shown in new formats for notations. See below. Cecuauh, "One Eagle," has no notation, for example. Cetoch, "One Rabbit," has a dot for the one. Matlaccuauh has one more than the expected ten dots.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan
cexochitl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Ce Xochitl

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:

calendrics

day name

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

Keywords:

flores, flowers, dates, fechas, calendario, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Uno Flor, o 1-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 501r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=81&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: