Maquequexqui (MH839v)

Maquequexqui (MH839v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Maquequexquic (“He Suffered from Itchy Hands””) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a flat hand (maitl) at an angle, leaning somewhat to the viewer’s right. On top of the back of the hand is a spiral, which is a semantic indicator of the verb for having a terrible itch (quequexquia).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The tlacuilos of this manuscript had various ways for showing things relating to the sensory perceptions. Here, a swirl represents a terrible itch. Elsewhere, one will find visual sound (such as volutes emitting from a bell, or from a speaker or a singer), visual odor (such as a person emitting gas), visual fragrance (coming off a flower). The swirl on the hand has various uses, such as showing a whirlpool or an omen.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
phrase or sentence
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Sensory Perception
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
quequexquia, to suffer from a terrible itch, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quequexquia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tuvo Comezón en las Manos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 839v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=753&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: 
"s" for x
intrusive "c"