Teocalhueyacan (FCbk12f45v)

Teocalhueyacan (FCbk12f45v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a black and white sketch of a place called Teocalhueyacan, where Spaniards took refuge during the battles for power, 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. The contextualizing image shows a group of about nine Spaniards, apparently mostly on horseback, escaping to Teocalhueyacan. The detail for this record is the building that represents the teocalli of the place that honors that building. Note the especially high thatched roof. This was a place of refuge for the Spaniards after the so-called Noche Triste, when many died as the Spaniards tried to escape from Tenochtitlan.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The high thatched roof of this iconographic example is not dissimilar to the Teocalhueyacan in the Codex Mendoza (see below). Other teocalli hieroglyphs can also have thatched roofs.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

teucalhueiacan

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Teocalhueyacan

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

Tlalnepantla, Otomíes, calpolli Otomí, calpulli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Teocalhueyacan, a place name, where Spaniards took refuge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Teocalhueyacan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Teocalhueyacan, el nombre de un lugar

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 12: Conquest of Mexico", fol. 45v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/45v/images/0 Accessed 7 February 2026.

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:

"i" for y

Historical Contextualizing Image: