huexotl (FCbk11f114v)

huexotl (FCbk11f114v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a willow tree (huexotl or ahuexotl), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text on the page prior to the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a frontal view of a large tree with many branches and small green leaves. The trunk is also green, and it is bumpy. The tree is standing in water, which is significant semantically and phonetically for the alternative spelling, ahuexotl, the willow used to hold the banks on the water’s edge of chinampas (chinamitl). This is reminiscent of the Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name, Ahuexotl (below). The water here has some swirls (suggesting movement) around the base of the tree.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Both the huexotl or ahuexotl figure in this digital collection as personal names, place names, and ethnic identity glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Vexotl, avexotl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

huexotl, ahuexotl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

green (light)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

sauces, árbol, árboles, agua

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huexo(tl), a willow tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huexotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el sauce

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 114v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/114v/images/0 Accessed 16 October 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: