Hualitztica (MH699r)

Hualitztica (MH699r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Hualitztica (“Looking This Way”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a building in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The building seems to provide a phonetic -ca (from, calli, or -can, a locative) for the ending (-ca) to the name. Inside the entrance to the building is an eye (ixtli), which is meant to convey the verb itztica, to be looking. The first element of the name (Hual-, in this direction), is not necessarily indicated, unless “this direction” is to the right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The way the eye is drawn in this glyph shows some influence from European stylistics, given the almond shape. See a couple of other examples below. They all contrast quite a bit with the starry eye of earlier manuscripts, such as that seen in Tlamauhqui (MH770r) or Ixtli (Mdz51r). Clearly, the tlacuilos of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco knew how to draw both types of eyes, but what was once a “starry” or “stellar” eye was reserved more for names that had to do with knowledge from experience, such as Tlamauh. On the same folio (MH699r) at the top of the page is a lord, José de Silva, whose name glyph is a round eye with the lid half way down and the iris and pupil drawn in red paint.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

fillipe valiztica ycnoōq~chtli

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Hualitztica Icnooquichtli

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

ca syllable (from calli)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

red

white/neutral

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

ojos, ver, viendo, edificios, casas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itztica, to be looking, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztica
hual-, in this direction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hual
icno-, humble or sad, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icno
oquich(tli), a man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oquichtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Viendo Hacia Acá

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 699r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=478&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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