cozolli (FCbk6f143v)

cozolli (FCbk6f143v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a cradle (cozolli, also spelled conzolli) 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 keywords chosen by the team behind the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss. This example shows a rectangular box with hoops above it that were probably meant to protect the baby that would lie inside. There are two hoops over the area of the head and one over the feet.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As of July 2025, we do not have a cozolli glyph in the collection, only another example included here for its iconography (below). That one appears to include hardware.

Added 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:

Children, Childhood, Adolescence

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

rectangular

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

cuna, cunas, tohuatli, camas de bebé, cama de bebé, crib, cribs, cradles

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozol(li), a cradle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la cuna

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 6: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 143v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/143v/images/0. Accessed 5 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.”

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