Yohualpapalotl (MH762v)

Yohualpapalotl (MH762v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yohualpapalotl ("Night Butterfly" or "Moth") shows a profile view of a butterfly (papalotl), facing the viewer's left. Surrounding the butterfly is a rectangle with black shading, meant to suggest night (yohualli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

facing left

profile view

rectangular

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

mariposas, noche, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yohual(li), night, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yohualli
papalo(tl), butterfly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/papalotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mariposa de la Noche, o Polilla

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 762v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=603&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: