Xochitl Cuepon (MH895r)

Xochitl Cuepon (MH895r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochitl Cuepon (“The Flower Bloomed”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a robust flower with a stem and three visible petals. Hash marks appear on the petals and on the body of the blossom. Otherwise, nothing obvious indicates that the process of the flower blooming, but it has indeed already opened.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another Xochitl Cuepon glyph, below, is similar.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

balthasal xochitl cuepō

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Xochitl Cuepon

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

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

hash marks (maize connection)

tripartite

Keywords:

flores, abrir, florecer, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cueponi, for a flower to bloom or open, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueponi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Flor Floreció

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 895r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=862&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:

"l" for r

"s" for z

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: