Yayauhquitlalpan (Mdz51r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This purple and orange painting of the simplex glyph for the place name Yayauhquitlalpan (perhaps "On the Maroon Land") shows a rectangle divided into three segments. The segment on the viewer's right is somewhat larger than the other two. It has three backward C-shapes. The other two each have of these backward C-shapes. These markings may refer to agricultural activity on the land (tlalli). The purple or maroon (yayauhqui) color on the middle and right segments of land is also a part of the place name. The left-most segment is more of an orange. The locative suffix -pan (in, on, or at) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The rectangular, segmented parcel of land is typical of glyphs or elements in the Codex Mendoza for representing agricultural land. These colors of maroon or purple and orange are also typical, although this one is darker. One translation for this color name (yayauhqui) calls it negruzco (Spanish for blackish or dusky). See some examples below of other place names involving tlalli. Milli and chinamitl are other types of agricultural field that can look like a tlalli.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

yayavquitlalpa.

Gloss Normalization:

Yayauhquitlalpan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1541, or by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

preposition

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Color names

Names (places)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

tierras, sementeras, agricultural, nombres de lugares, nombres de pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

yayauhqui, blackish, brown, dark, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yayauhqui
tlal(li), land, agricultural land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
-pan (a locative suffix), in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Image Source:

Codex Mendoza, folio 51 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 112 of 118.

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image:

Yayauhquitlalpan (Mdz51r)

Yayauhquitlalpan (Mdz51r)

Teotlalpan (Mdz51r)

Tlacotlalpan (Mdz46r)

Tlalcuechahuayan (Mdz44r)

Amiltzinco (Mdz25r)

Tecmilco (Mdz41r)

Chinantlan (Mdz46r)