xocoyolli (FCbk11f137v)

xocoyolli (FCbk11f137v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring sorrel (xocoyolli also called xoxocoyolli), 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 the stalk of a plant with five green leaves and two sprays with clusters of small red flowers.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This xocoyolli does not exactly resemble the one in the Xocoyoltepec place name glyph in the Codex Mendoza (see below), which clearly has red stems. For another painting of a xoxocoyolli plant, see the DFC Book 11, folio 148v. And for a plant called texoxocoyolli, see folio 164v and forward.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

xocoioli, xoxocoioli

Gloss/Text Normalization:

xocoyolli, xoxocoyolli

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Food, Eating, Cooking

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (light)

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Keywords:

plantas, comida, yerbas, herbs, woodsorrel

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xocoyol(li), sorrel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocoyolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el jojocoyol

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. 137v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/137v/images/0 Accessed 16 November 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.”

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