cozatli (FCbk11f14r)

cozatli (FCbk11f14r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring a weasel (cozatli, also called a cozama), 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 an animal in profile, facing right, and starting to stand up on its hind legs, because the front paws are up off the ground slightly. The coat is a terracotta color, with the exception that the face has some gray spots.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This animal is apparently a weasel (cozatli), which can also be called a cozama, as it is in the Florentine Codex. Another close term is the cozantli, which apparently refers to a lynx. That the animal in this iconographic example is a weasel is supported by the fact that the Spanish-language text in the DFC says comadreja (weasel).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

coçatli

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

cozatli

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: 
Animals: Misc.
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
green (light)
orange/terracotta
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

comadrejas, animales

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

coza(tli), a weasel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozatli
cozan(tli), a lynx, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la comadreja

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. 14r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/14r/images/0 Accessed 7 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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

cozatli (Mdz46r)