iczotilmatli (FCbk10f55r)

iczotilmatli (FCbk10f55r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a group of palm leaf fiber cloaks (iczotilmatli), 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 near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows a frontal view of a stack of five rectangular palm leaf fiber cloaks in different sizes. Horizontal lines suggest that these are woven fibers. Shading shows three-dimensionality, suggesting European artistic influence. In the contextualizing image, a man with a pack on his back is walking toward the stack of tilmas.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See a few examples of Nahuatl hieroglyphs for iczotl that appear in this digital collection. Two of them uphold the reading of palm over yucca.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

icçotilmatli

Gloss Normalization:

iczotilmatli

Gloss 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:

Gender (male)

Plants, Flora

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

woven

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

palmas, izotes, capas, textiles, tela de palma

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

iczotilma(tli), yucca or palm leaf fiber cloaks or capes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iczotilmatli
iczo(tl), a palm or the palm leaf, sometimes also perhaps yucca https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iczotl
tilma(tli), a cloak or cape, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

la manta de fibra de palma

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 10: The People", fol. 55r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/55r/images/0 Accessed 10 September 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

Historical Contextualizing Image: