Macuex (MH541v)

Macuex (MH541v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuex ("Bracelet" or "Beaded Wristband," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of an upright (right) hand with the fingers extended. At the wrist is a bracelet (macuextli) of three red (possibly stone) beads.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin macuex

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Macuex

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Keywords: 

bracelets, pulseras, cuentas, jewelry, joyas, nombres de hombres

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

macuex(tli), bracelet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pulsera de Cuentas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 541v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=162&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: 
See Also: 

Macuex (MH638r)

Macuex (MH497r)

Macuex (MH495v)

Macuex (MH499v)

Macuex (MH669v)