#
# Identification:
#
#   * Title: ???
#   * Page: f4r = AG (Rene) = p007 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f4
#   * Panels: f4r
#   * Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
#   * Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
#
# Attributes:
#
#   * Language: A (Currier)
#   * Hand: 1 (Currier)
#   * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: herbal
#   * Colors: green,red (Reeds), leaves_red,white,green (Rene)
#   * Plant: 6 (Petersen)
#
# Description:
#
#   One plant, mostly in the right half of the page.
#   
#   Two paragraphs (unit µ{P}) with 3.8 and 8.6 lines, both above
#   mid-page. The first is left- and right-justified, and interrupted
#   once by the flowers; the second is left-justified and follows the
#   plant's outline on the right.
#
#   The lower stem (between the root and the baggy sleeves) is badly
#   faded, together with the nearby parts of the root.
#   There may be faint 
#
#   Rene [04 Apr 1999] observes that there is an 'F' marking on the
#   rightmost flower. He also reads the markings on the stem as "tau,
#   omicron, tau" (the latter rotated 90 degrees), and says that the
#   ink looks the same as on the rest of the page.
#
#
# Comments:
#
#   Plant appearance: very normal, exceptionally well-drawn. The layout
#   of leaves and flowers is very naturalistic.  The "dark painter"
#   apparently spared it.
#
#   The faded parts (lower stem  and roots) may have been erased.
#   If that is the case, it must have happened before the 
#   "Greek letters" were written.
#
#   Stolfi [10 apr 1999] suggests that the "Greek letters" on the stem
#   may be "rot" (German for "red") in Rene's German alphabet[1]. He
#   also suggests that the "F" may be a `paint-by-number' code meant
#   for the painter [2].
#
# References:
#
#   [1] Fritz Saxl, book about astronomical and astrological images in
#   medieval manuscripts.
#
#   [2] THE MANUSCRIPT BOOK, by Graham D. Caie and Stephen Harris.
#   http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/AllSeafarer/book/BookNar.html
#
# Last edited on 1999-04-15 04:08:30 by stolfi