cuauhxinqui (FCbk10f16v)

cuauhxinqui (FCbk10f16v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a carpenter (cuauhxinqui) at work, is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the nearby text in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a man in a profile view, facing left. He seems to be working on some flat boards or planks.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another name for a carpenter is a tlaxinqui (see below). See also an example of the work of a carpenter in the Codex Mendoza, a carpenter’s main tool in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, and a carpenter’s pay for making a ladder in the Codex Sierra-Texupan, and some planks (cuahuitl and huapalli).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

guauhxingui

Gloss Normalization:

cuauhxinqui

Gloss 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:

Gender (male)

Occupations

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

madera, carpintería, tablero, tableros, tablón, tablones, xima, cepillar una tabla, tablas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauhxinqui, a carpenter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhxinqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el carpintero

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 10: The People", fol. 16v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/16v/images/0 Accessed 5 September 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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: