#   A circular diagram. 
#
#   Eight concentric mechanically drawn circles delimit four rings of
#   text. The three innermost rings have extra-wide gaps at about
#   10:30. Faint double radial lines, almost but not quite aligned,
#   interrupt those three circles at those gaps. There is an isolated
#   word outside the outer circle, also at about 10:30, just clockwise
#   of the gaps and double lines.
#
#   The four rings contain a mixture of short words and Voynichese
#   characters. There are several "weirdoes", including sme that occur
#   only here. The second ring from the outside contains 68 single
#   characters, consisting of four almost-exact copies of the same
#   17-character sequence.  Rene [04 Apr 1999] says that all the 
#   characters seem to be in the same ink.
#
#   The diagram is divided into 4 quadrants by straight lines in the
#   NE, NW, SW, and SE directions. The lines are drawn with ruler, but
#   do not quite meet at the center. They are probably modern
#   additions to the copy.
#
#   At the center is a simple rosette, with 4 short and 4 long rounded
#   lobes, with a circle and a dot in the middle.
#
#   Inside the innermost circle there are four naked human figures,
#   visible from the chest up, heads towards the center. Two are male,
#   two female; two are seen mostly from the front two mostly from the
#   back; two have both arms raised, two have only one. Here are the
#   combinations:
#
#     North:  male,   back,  two arms straight in "V".
#     West:   female, front, one arm straight at 45 degrees.
#     South:  female, back,  two arms straight in "V".
#     East:   male,   front, one arm forward then bent up, holding a ball.
#
#   There are 8 words inside the inner circle. Four of them radiate
#   from the rosette, roughly along the diagonal lines.  The other
#   four are tangential (but with straight baselines), to be read
#   in the clockwise direction; it is not clear whether they
#   label the four figures, or the spaces between them.
#
#   Rene observes [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum is suppler than
#   average.
#
# Last edited on 1999-04-06 06:18:45 by stolfi
