Ce Xochitl (MH638r)

Ce Xochitl (MH638r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph and notation for the personal name Ce Xochitl (“One Flower,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of an upright, three-petalled flower with a tripartite base. Connecting by a line from the base over to the right of the flower is a vertical line meant to indicate the number one (ce).

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.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cesochitl

Gloss Normalization:

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

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

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

frontal view

Keywords:

flores, flowers, dates, fechas, calendarios

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

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358st=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).

Orthography:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: