coyotl (FCbk11f8v)

coyotl (FCbk11f8v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a coyote (coyotl), 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 an animal that is standing, facing toward the viewer’s right. It has a shaggy brown coat. It stands on a blue, green, and dark gray ground. This kind of landscape feature is the result of European artistic influence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Coyotes appear fairly often in compound Nahuatl hieroglyphs, typically as the head only. The whole animal will appear in some glyphs for Coyohuacan, but these typically will have a hole (coyoctli) in the middle of the body, serving as a phonetic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

coiotl

Gloss Normalization:

coyotl

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:

Animals: Misc.

Landscape Features

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

brown

green (light)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

coyotes, animales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el coyote

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 11: Earthly Things", fol. 8v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/8v/images/0 Accessed 7 October 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: