Tolxoch (MH644r)

Tolxoch (MH644r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tolxoch ("Tule Flower," attested here as a woman's name) shows four upright tule (tolin) reeds. Above the middle two reeds is a frontal view of a quincunx-shaped flower, with four petals and a central circle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is not absolute, but there is a tendency to show tolin with four upright reeds, as can be seen below in examples from the earlier Codex Mendoza. The tule flower here is less of an early shape, however.

The second given name "Ana" has an overbar above that word, which is an intrusive one, considering that there is no "n" missing in the name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo anā tolxoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Juana Ana (or Juana) Tolxoch

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
spiky
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

tules, flores, nombres de mujeres

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

tol(in), tules, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tolin-1
xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor de Tule

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&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).

Orthography: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tolin (Mdz3v)

tolin (Mdz40r)

Tolxoch (MH652v)