ahuacuahuitl (FCbk11f113r)

ahuacuahuitl (FCbk11f113r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring an oak tree (ahuacuahuitl), 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 frontal view of a large tree with many branches and small green leaves. The trunk is gray with white highlights that give it a three-dimensionality. The tree stands in a landscape setting. These latter features of the scene suggest a European artistic influence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This digital collection already includes one ahuacuahuitl and a few examples of ahuatl trees that are parts of place names. The difference between these two terms calls for further investigation.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Avaquavitl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

ahuacuahuitl

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:

Plants, Flora

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

encinos, roble, robles, árboles

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ahuacuahu(itl), an oak tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ahuacuahuitl
ahua(tl), oak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ahuatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el árbol encino

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. 113r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/113r/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:

"q" for c

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: