Tlatolmana (MH672r)

Tlatolmana (MH672r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlatolmana (or Tlahtolmana, “He Lays Out Words”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows four speech scrolls (tlatolli, or tlahtolli with the glottal stop). Above these are three narrow, vertical rectangles that must have something to do with the verb mana (to lay out).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note how tlatol- combines with various additional elements in the glyphs below. Speech, and having the right to speak, were important features of Nahua culture, where the ruler was the tlatoani (or tlahtoani, with the glottal stop).

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)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

palabras, hablar, establecer, poner, exponer, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatol(li), word, language, discourse, speech, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
Mana, to lay something out flat and smooth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Establece el Discurso

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 672r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=424&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).

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