cuicanime (MH817v)

cuicanime (MH817v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation cuicani (“singer”), which is given in the plural here, cuicanime (“singers”) is attested here as a man’s occupation. The glyph shows a frontal or bird’s eye view of an open book, probably a song book, which is bound. Both visible pages have marks on them of short strokes.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It is interesting to see how bound books take the place of screenfolds in glyphs relating to writing of various kinds. Also, the marks on the pages do not appear to be hieroglyphs but more like hash marks that could stand for musical notes or alphabetic writing.

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

bird's eye view

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

cantar, canciónes, cancionero, oficios, iglesia, hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuicani, a singer (plural, cuicanime), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cantores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 817v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=709&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: