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# Identification:
#
# * Title: "Taurus dark"
# * Page: f72r1 = KC (Rene) = p137 (Stolfi)
# * Folio: f72
# * Panels: f72r1
# * Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
# * Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
#
# This page is the innermost recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out.
#
# Levitov figure 25, page 169.
# D'Imperio figure 10, page 88 (center).
#
# Attributes:
#
# * Language: ? (Currier)
# * Hand: ? (Currier)
# * Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
# * Subject: zodiac
# * Colors: dark-red,green(little),yellow(stars) (Reeds), red(bull),yellow(star_centres) (Rene)
#
# Description:
#
# Three concentric rings of text (units µ{R1}, µ{R2}, µ{R3}, from
# outside in), bounded by faint mechanically drawn circles. There is
# an extra-wide gap at 09:00 in the middle ring.
#
# Inside the innermost ring there is a bull-like animal, painted
# red, eating from a manger. The animal has a long thin tail
# terminated by a brush of hair, a conspicuous penis, lyre-shaped
# horns flanked by short uncolored ears, thick uncolored lips and
# salient nostrils. The manger is hemispherical, with thick rim and
# short thin legs (possibly four of them; three are visible).
#
# Below the animal is the word ``May'' in some Roman script. On the
# ground, below the "y" of "may", there is a flattened "V" with
# floppy arms. Above the animal's rump, level with the head, is a
# faint sign resembling a capital Greek upsilon, with equal
# semicircular arms.
#
# Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are 5 human
# figures or "nymphs". Each is standing in a barrel, waist deep. The
# barrels are undecorated. The top edge of each barrel (except the
# one at 09:00) has a double outline, as if the wall were one inch
# thick or so.
#
# All these five nymphs have the right hand inside the barrel,
# except for the one at 02:00 (whose right hand is on her belly,
# just above the barrel's edge). They have short hair hidden
# by round hats or hat-like hairdos, some of them resembling shower caps.
#
# Between the middle ring and the outer ring are 10 human figures,
# standing. The one at 02:30 has the right arm stretched back and
# down; all the others have the right hand on their hips. The feet
# are usually hidden by the text ring. Some have long hair, and the
# one at 07;15 is wearing a hat or hat-like hairdo.
#
# All nymphs but one are in 3/4 view, between frontal and facing
# clockwise. The only exception is the outer one at 00:00, who is in
# frontal view; she is smaller than the others, and may be
# menstruating.
#
# Every nymph is holding or pointing to a star.
#
# There is a hole in the vellum at 09:15, just inside the middle
# test ring and after the 09:00 nymph of the inner band. A small
# star and the head of a sixth nymph (from f73r, inner band at
# 09:15) are visible through the hole. The left arm of the nymph at
# 08:30 has been drawn so that it seems to be holding the star from
# f73r through the hole; while an extra arm has been added under and
# after the hole, so that the nymph from f73r seems to be reaching
# into this page, and holding the star at 09:30.
#
# All the figures are naked, except the innerone at 08:45. Most have
# visible breasts. Some have hats, some have long hair.
#
# Clockwise from each figure there is a short label (text units
# µ{S1} for the outer band and µ{S2} for the inner band).
#
# Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that this folio is all curled up.
# Also, that no color was applied to this page, except for the
# animal and the star centres (yellow).
#
# The following table summarizes the nymph and star attributes. The
# "brst" column says whether the figure has visible female breasts.
# The "rays" column is the number of rays in each star; a "t" means
# the star has a tail. The "hand" column gives the position of the
# right hand; a hour figure measn that the right arm is stretched
# towards that direction relative to the nymph.
#
# band label place brst hand rays notes
# ------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ---- ------------------------------
# inner S2.1 08:45 yes tub 7 hat; barrel; dress; hole play
# inner S2.2 00:30 yes tub 8? hat; barrel
# inner S2.3 02:30 yes belly 7 hat; barrel
# inner S2.4 04:30 yes tub 8 hat; barrel
# inner S2.5 07:15 yes tub 7 hat; barrel; misshapen
#
# outer S1.1 09:45 yes butt 7
# outer S1.2 10:45 yes hip 7
# outer S1.3 00:00 yes hip 8 small; frontal; menses?
# outer S1.4 01:15 yes hip 7 left foot raised back
# outer S1.5 02:00 yes hip 8
# outer S1.6 02:45 yes 07:00 7?
# outer S1.7 04:00 yes hip 8
# outer S1.8 05:15 yes hip 7
# outer S1.9 07:15 yes hip 7 hat with long feather
# outer S1.10 08:45 yes hip 7 left foot raised back
#
# Comments:
#
# The general appearance of the page is dark, in contrast to the
# light Taurus, f71v.
#
# The animal at the center is probably a bull, the astrological
# symbol for Taurus. Taurus is April 20th to May 20th.
#
# The flattened "V" below the word "may" resembles the red glyphs
# on f1r. It may be a coincidence --- the "V" could also be
# an attempt to represent stones on the ground.
#
# The play with the nymph through the hole in the vellum
# implies that at least some detail of this page (namely, the
# arm holding the star) was drawn or retouched after f73r was
# in its current position.
#
# References:
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# Last edited on 2000-02-21 00:26:18 by stolfi