Matlal (MH681r)

Matlal (MH681r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Matlal (“Blue-Green Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a flat, frontal view of a matlalin flower with three petals and a point in between all of them.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Most matlalin flowers have three petals and three points, but at least one in this collection has four. One example is colored a turquoise blue with a dark pink centered.

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: 
Color names
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

flores, colores, verde, azul, nombres de mujeres

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

matlal(in), a blue-green color or a flower that color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/matlalin-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor Verde-Azul

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 681r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=442&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: 
See Also: 

matlalin (MH518v)

Matlalaca (MH486r)

Matlalihuitl (MH518v)

Matlaltzincatl (MH605r)

Matlal (MH608r)