cueyatl (FCbk6f21v)

cueyatl (FCbk6f21v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example of a frog (referred to by the Digital Florentine Codex team as the keyword cueyatl, given that it is not glossed or mentioned in the text) shows a bird’s eye view of the amphibian. It is resting on a woven mat (apparently a petlatl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

We do not have many frogs or toads in this digital collection (as of July 2025). But the Calaten, below, is shown in a bird’s eye view much like this cueyatl.

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:

Animals: Misc.

Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

Keywords:

ranas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cueya(tl), a type of frog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueyatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

un tipo de rana

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. 21v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/21v Accessed 2 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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