Xochicozan (MH686r)

Xochicozan (MH686r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochicozan (perhaps “Flower-Lynx,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a lynx (or perhaps weasel, ferret, or even a snow leopard–clearly the translations for cozatli and cozantli require more work). The animal is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right, in something of a seated position, with its front leg(s) raised out in front, and a long tail elevated somewhat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This name is not necessarily literal, but might have some other meaning, and if so, the designation of “compound fully logographic” might not hold.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

animales, linces, flores, nombres de hombres

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cozan(tli), lynx or snowleopard, //nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozantli
coza(tli), weasel or ferret, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, lince o comadreja

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&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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