toztli (FCbk11f23r)

toztli (FCbk11f23r)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a yellow-headed Amazon parrot (toztli), is included in this digital collection for the purpose of making comparisons with related hieroglyphs. The term selected for this example comes from the Nahuatl text near the image in the Digital Florentine Codex. There is no gloss, per se. This example shows this yellow parrot in profile, facing and walking toward the viewer’s right. Its left foot is raised, suggesting motion. The bird is mostly yellow, but there are some red feathers on the body, under the wing. The wing and tail feathers are yellow with long, thin, red stripes.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The toztli is well represented in this digital collection, sometimes as a whole bird, but usually it is represented by its feathers alone. When the toztli glyphs have color, they are yellow.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Toztli

Gloss/Text Normalization:

toztli

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

Movement

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

striped

Keywords:

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

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

toz(tli), yellow parrot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toztli

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. 23r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/23r/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.”

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