Page f17r
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Identification
Title: "Roots with eyes"
Page: f17r = CA (Rene) = p031 (Stolfi)
Folio: f17
Panels: f17r
Bifolio: bC1 = f17+f24
Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke)
First page of quire.
Color reproduction in Frank Smythe's book [1].
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: 1 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Colors: b,green (Reeds)
Description
One plant, flush against the right margin,
spanning from the bottom edge to a little below the top
margin.
Three paragraphs (unit P) with 2.6, 2.5, 5.5 lines, at the top
of the page, left- and right-justified except for the last
paragraph (which follows the plant's outline on the right),
extending down to mid-page. Paragraph 3 may actually be two
paragraphs (with 2.9 and 2.5 lines).
There is one extra line of text above the top margin (unit H),
apparently not in the same hand as the rest of the page. Rene
reports [04 Apr 1999] that the extra line is in brown, too.
The folio number '17' is darker than the text, which is lighter
than usual.
Comments
The extra line of text at the top of the page looks similar to the
hand of f116v (especially the characters shaped like "l"s). The
letters are probably Latin, or possibly Greek; the EVA-"y" with macron
would then be an abbreviation.
The eyes in the roots seem to be the result of "enhancing" two
eye-like gaps in the roots.
References
[1] Smythe, Frank. "A Script Full of Secrets" and "The Uncrackable
Code" in "Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time: The Unexplained", pp.
3062-3069. H. S. Stuttman, Inc., Westport, Connecticut, USA.
Copyright 1992 by Orbis Publishing, Inc. [Originally published in
"The Unexplained" in the UK.]
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