cozamalotl (FCbk7f12r)

cozamalotl (FCbk7f12r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a rainbow (cozamalotl) is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making potential comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the text in the Digital Florentine Codex. This example shows an arching, colorful rainbow in a white or natural sky with some turquoise or sky blue painted across the top of the sky. This–and a landscape below the rainbow–is all contained within a box with a border. The landscape consists of largely horizontal green, brown, and yellow abstract shapes. Coming up from this landscape are what appear to be small turquoise blue trees.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection includes–as of July 2025–one hieroglyph for the personal name Cozamalotl. It differs considerably from this in that it is not a full arc and it is not colored. A place name in the Codex Mendoza that involves a rainbow does not include a visual of that rainbow, but chooses an animal as a phonetic indicator in place of the rainbow. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

coçamalotl

Gloss Normalization:

cozamalotl

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:

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

border (red, plain, or patterned)

frontal view

grounding

rectangular

Keywords:

arcos, cielo, colores

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozamalo(tl), a rainbow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozamalotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el arcoiris, el arco del cielo

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 7: The Sun, Moon and Stars", fol. 12r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/7/folio/12r/images/0 Accessed 15 July 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:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: