Mizquixoch (MH741v)

Mizquixoch (MH741v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Mizquixoch (“Mesquite Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a frontal view of an upright flower (xochitl) with three petals, two leaves, and a tripartite sepal. Each petal and the center of the base of the flower have small dashes, little marks that may reflect the fluffiness of the actual mesquite (mizquitl) flower.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The flower of the mesquite tree is a long, fluffy, yellow blossom. See an example in WikiMedia Commons. The shape of the flower of this glyph does not resemble the realia images of the mesquite flower, nor does it resemble the flowers that appear on the mizquitl glyphs found elsewhere. The glyph shape here seems stylized or idealized.

Added Analysis, 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

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:

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

tripartite

Keywords:

flores, mezquite, plantas, árboles

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mizqui(tl), mezquite tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mizquitl
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mezquite-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 741v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=561&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:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: