pipiyolin (FCbk11f99v)

pipiyolin (FCbk11f99v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a stingless bee (pipiyolin), 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 near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a bird’s eye view of the two-tone brown and black, striped pipiyolin in flight (suggesting movement), but landing on a red flower. The landscape setting for this bee suggests European artistic influence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As of November 2025, there are two other examples of the pipeline bee in this digital collection. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Pipiioli

Gloss/Text Normalization:

pipiyolin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Insects & Bugs

Flowers

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

striped

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

abejas, bees, animals, insects

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

pipiyol(in), a stingless bee, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pipiyolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la abeja melipona

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. 99v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/99v/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:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: