Ixtlilxochitl (FCbk8f7r)

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlilxochitl (perhaps “Black Face-Flower”), a ruler of Tetzcoco, shows a frontal view of a human eye (ixtli). This design can double as a starry eye in the sky. Above the eye is a flower (xochitl) with red and black (tlilli) petals. The companion text refers to the Ixtlilxochitl who ruled Tetzcoco in the sixteenth century. An earlier Ixtlilxochitl ruled in the fifteenth century. Later, on folio 8 verso, the text notes that this younger Ixtlilxochitl helped the Marqués (i.e., Cortés) in many ways and went with him on the expedition to Honduras.