toznene (FCbk11f22v)

toznene (FCbk11f22v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a yellow-headed Amazon parrot (toznene, or toznenetl), 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 multicolored parrot, in profile, walking toward the viewer’s right. Its left claw is raised, and it may be holding a fruit of some kind. The bird is pecking at this possible fruit. The wing and tail feathers are primarily green with some white. The body and head are yellow and red.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This digital collection does not yet (as of October 2025) have another example of a toznene. Personal names that start with Toz- tend to show feathers and sometimes whole birds, probably related to the toznene. These feathers can be yellow, although the glyphs are not often painted. Another popular name is Chamol, and these hieroglyphs feature red parrot feathers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Toznene

Gloss/Text Normalization:

toznene (or toznenetl)

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:

Animals: Birds

Feathers

Food, Eating, Cooking

Movement

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

papagayos, perico, pericos, loro, loros, pájaro, pájaros, ave, aves, pluma, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toznene(tl), a yellow-headed parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toznenetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

un papagayo amarillo

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. 22v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/22v/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: