Nezahualcoyotl (FCbk8f7r-v)

Nezahualcoyotl (FCbk8f7r-v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name Nezahualcoyotl (perhaps “Fasting Coyote,” the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco) shows the head of a coyote in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Its coat is painted brown and mottled. A red ring circles the bottom of the coyote’s neck, and from that ring come down three rectangular shapes.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The three rectangles just might be three thorns that are piercing the animal, but this is not clear. Another compound glyph for Nezahualcoyotl (below) makes the thorns more obvious. This collection has a number of glyphs for the name Nezahual (perhaps “One Who Fasts”), but they do not share any of the elements of this compound.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Neçaoalcoiotzin

Gloss Normalization:

Nezahualcoyotzin

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

brown

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

Texcoco, Nezahualcoyotzin, coyotes, animales, tlatoani, tlatoque, tlahtoani, tlahtohqueh, gobernador, gobernadores, gobernante, gobernantes, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Nezahualcoyotl, a ruler of Tetzcoco in the fifteenth century, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Nezahualcoyotl
nezahual(li), ritual fasting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nezahualli
coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(nombre de un gobernante de Tetzcoco, “Coyote Ayunador”)

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 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 7r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/7r/images/ddc47c1d-867... Accessed 24 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

"o" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: