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# Identification:
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#   * Title: ???
#   * Page: f68v2 = II (Rene) = p127 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f68
#   * Panels: f68v2
#   * Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
#   * Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)
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#   This page is the second innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out.
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#   Brumbaugh p41, called f.68r by him.
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: ? (Currier)
#   * Hand: ? (Currier)
#   * Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: astronomical
#   * Colors: blue(lozenge_star),yellow(windmill),blue(some_stars) (Reeds)
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# Description:
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#   The page contains a circular diagram, under a paragraph 
#   with 5.0 lines (unit µ{P}).  The last line is interrupted
#   by the diagram.
#
#   The diagram is framed by a circular band of text (unit µ{C}),
#   between two concentric mechanically drawn thin circles. (An
#   extra-wide gap at 10:30 may be the starting point.)
#   rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the strokes are thinner than
#   in the main text.
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#   At the center there is a figure that looks pretty much like a
#   flower, with eight kite-shaped petals. The petals have serrated
#   edges, and overlap randomly. (However some pairs of petals seem to
#   be fused.)  The petals have been painted solid dark blue.
#
#   At the very center of this "flower" there is an irregular star,
#   with twisted rays, painted yellow.
#
#   The "flower"'s outline ia an eight-sided star, resembling two
#   concentric squares rotated 45 degrees apart.  From the tips
#   of each "petal", there sprouts a straight narrow tendril.
#   Each tendril soon turns into a radial text line, reading outwards
#   (unit µ{R}).  Some of the text is therefore upside down.
#
#   The eight sectors defined by these rays alternately contain a
#   bunch of unnamed stars, or two radial labels (unit µ{S}), collinear
#   and reading outwards, with a single star between them. Clockwise
#   from the division at 11:30 there are 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 1, 9, 1 stars,
#   i.e. 35 unlabeled ones and 4 labeled ones.
#
#   The 03:00 sector (with 8 stars) has a speckled yellow blotch
#   behind and between two stars; and the most clockwise of its stars
#   is painted green. The lone star in the 04:30 sector is lime green,
#   and the first stars of the 05:30 sector are yellowish green.
#
# Comments:
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#   The small central flower may be the Sun. Or it may represent the
#   stamens/pistils of the large flower surrounding it.
#
#   The speckles in the 03:00 sector possibly represent a more distant
#   star cluster.
#
#   The radial lines should probably be read starting from 10:30, at
#   the gap in the outer text ring. Besides, that ray is the only one
#   that contains any EVA "p" (two of them).
#
#   The green stars are probably the result of improper cleaning of the
#   brush between painting the big blue star and then the small yellow ones.
#   Thus the central yellow star either was painted first or last.
#
#   This detail shows that the blue and yellow colors were applied 
#   at the same time; so either both are original, or both are late.
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-12-11 08:09:01 by stolfi