Macuil (MH625v)

Macuil (MH625v)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph/notation for the personal name Macuil ("Five," attested here as a man's name) shows a group of five (macuilli) vertical black lines connected at the bottom with a horizontal black line.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Macuil is probably all that remains of a calendrical name that involved the number five in combination with any one of twenty day signs, such as xochitl, or the like. This would be a name given to the man as a child, depending upon the day in the calendar that coincided with his birth. By the time of this manuscript, 1560, evolution was taking place in the use of the divinatory calendar, whereby either the number was dropping away, or in this case, the day sign was lost or omitted consciously. Macuil is an especially prevalent example of this change.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Diego
macuil

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Macuil

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
vertical, upright
frontal view
linear or multiple straight lines
Keywords: 

números, cinco, líneas, verticales, días, fechas, calendarios, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres

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

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cinco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 625v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=333&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: 

Macuil (MH492v)

Macuil (MH525v)

Macuilaca (MH607r)

Macuilli Tochtli (Mdz2r)