Yohualxoch (MH546r)

Yohualxoch (MH546r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Yohualxoch (“Night-Flower,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a frontal view of an upright, white flower with three petals. The area around the flower is painted black to suggest night (yohualli). The glyph has suffered from some deterioration toward the lower right corner.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Women's names are rare in this tribute list, given that married women contributed to the household tribute, which is recorded under the husband's name. Only widows are recorded separately for their tribute payments.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

maria yovalxoch

Gloss Normalization:

María Yohualxoch

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:

Celestial Phenomena

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

night, noche, flowers, flores

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohual(li), night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 546r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=171&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: