icali (FCbk6f190v)

icali (FCbk6f190v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This iconographic example, featuring two men fighting (representing the verb, icali, to fight) 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 two barefooted men dressed in trousers and tunics (European-style clothing) facing each other. One appears to reach toward the hair of the other, while that man tries to grab the offending arm. This is a black and white sketch. The fabric of the clothing has folds and shading that give it a three-dimensionality, also showing European influence.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

One will notice a considerable stylistic change between this example of the verb icali (to fight) and the iconographic example from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, below. As of July 2025, we have no Nahuatl hieroglyphs for icali in this digital collection.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)
Date of Manuscript: 

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Gestures with hands
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

la pelea, lucha, luchar, escaramuzar

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

icali, to fight, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icali

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

pelear

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. 190v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/190v/images/0 Accessed 8 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.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

icali (TR34v)