cueyatl (FCbk11f67v)

cueyatl (FCbk11f67v)
Iconography

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This iconographic example, featuring a frog (cueyatl), 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 gray frog with black spots in nearly a bird’s eye view, but also something of a ¾ view. The frog is facing toward the viewer’s right. Its feet are webbed, and they have claws. The frog appears to have water underneath it. This water has wavy lines (suggesting movement).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This digital collection has only one or two frogs in it (as of October 2025). See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

cueiatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

cueyatl

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)

visual movement

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Reptiles

Movement

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

gray

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

ranas, animal acuático, anfibio, anfibios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cueya(tl), a type of frog, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueyatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

un tipo de rana

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. 67v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/67v/images/0 Accessed 16 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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