tlatlatilcuahuitl (FCbk12f26v)

tlatlatilcuahuitl (FCbk12f26v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph features a black and white sketch of a bundle of firewood (tlatlatilcuahuitl). It 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 on the page following the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a horizontal bundle of small sticks that are tied in two places.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is the first example of the term tlatlatilcuahuitl for firewood. Usually, what appears to be firewood in Nahuatl hieroglyphs is simply cuahuitl (wood).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

…tlatlatilquauitl…

Gloss/Text Normalization:

…tlatlatilcuahuitl…

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:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Plants, Flora

Rope, cord, string

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

horizontal

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

tied, bound, or bundled

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

madera, fuego, fogón, quemar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatlatilcuahui(tl), firewood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatlatilcuahuitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la leña

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 12: Conquest of Mexico", fol. 26v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/12/folio/26v/images/0 Accessed 7 February 2026.

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:

"q" for c

"u" for hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: