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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Spiny carrots"
#   * Page: f11r = BE (Rene) = p021 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f11
#   * Panels: f11r
#   * Bifolio: bB3 = f11+f14
#   * Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke)
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: A (Currier)
#   * Hand: 1 (Currier)
#   * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: herbal
#   * Colors: b,green (Reeds), blue(flower) (Rene)
#   * Plant: 20 (Petersen)
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# Description:
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#   Three plants with entwined leaves and carrot-like roots,
#   which take up the bottom 3/4 of the page. 
#
#   Two paragraphs (unit µ{P}) with 3.5 and 2.4 lines, at the top of
#   the page, left- and right-justified.
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#     * Root: long, unbranched, carrot-like, gradually tapering to a point.
#       Vertical at first, they bend inwards, cross over each other,
#       and end horizontally neat the opposite edge of the page.
#       Textured with short dashes, their outlines covered with 
#       barbs directed upwards.
#     * Stem: short, thick, vertical, ends suddenly.
#     * Leaves: rounded with scalloped edges, densely packed like scales.
#       Stalk: curved, coplanar with leaf, attached to leaf center and
#       directly to top of stem.
#     * Flowers: many, lily-shaped, with three visible petals, only their 
#       corollas poking out of the dense canopy.
#
#   The leaves fo the three plants are merged into a single rounded canopy.
#   Below the canopy, between the stems of the first two plants,
#   there is a pair of isolared leaves, apparently pressed together.
#   Their stems bend down in semicircles and join into a single stem
#   that attaches to the two leaves from above.  Another pair of 
#   similarly merged leaves connects the second plant to the third.
#
#   The roots are painted with faint orange-brown color, overlaid with
#   a few rough strokes of a darker but still transparent color. The
#   stems and leafstalks are roughly painted with light transparent
#   yellow. Some of leaves are crudely painted with olive green
#   watercolor of varying density, giving the canopy a spotted
#   apeparance. The fowers are roughly painted with strong dark blue
#   watercolor.
#
#   There is a hole in the vellum, right in the middle of the canopy,
#   taking up most of one leaf.
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# Comments:
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#   The upward-pointing barbs in the roots are peculiar.
#   The joining of the plants by shared leaves may have 
#   symbolic value, but could be a representation of 
#   strawberry-like reproduction by shoots.
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-12-12 02:34:31 by stolfi