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Identification
Title: "Water lily"
Page: f2v = AD (Rene) = p004 (Stolfi)
Folio: f2
Panels: f2v
Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7
Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: 1 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Plant: 3 (Petersen)
Colors: green (Reeds), green (Rene)
Description
One plant centered on page.
Root: long straight rhizome, covered with rough bristles/scales
and round stalk scars, each scar having two or three dots.
Stem: single, vertical, slightly bent, shooting out from middle
of rhizome; dark painted.
Branches: there is the stub of a lost branch at mid-stalk.
Leaves: a single large leaf, horizontal, shaped like a very fat C,
with smooth rim. Painted solid dark.
Stalk: short.
Flowers: one white flower, pointing almost straight up.
Stalk: long, light colored, with a darker vein; part of it
obscured by leaf which should be behind it. Chalyx: well-drawn,
with thick tongue-shaped sepals, light colored. Petals:
well-drawn, flaring, lily shaped, serrated edges, white
underpaint. Core: not visible. Stamen: long, with a few short
hairs.
Two paragraphs (with lines, respectively), left- and
right-justified: one at the top, interrupted by the single flower,
and one just below mid-page, interrupted by the main stem.
Rene notes [04 Apr 1999] that there is a Roman 'fe' or 'fc'
above the <or> of the first word of the second paragraph.
Comments
The plant looks quite natural and well-drawn.
Presumably, the flower stem was in front of the leaf in the
original drawing; but the dark overpaint covered it. The original
outline of the leaf may have been obscured, too.
The leaf shape suggests it is a water plant. With that assumption,
the choices are quite few. Rene suggested Nymphaea candida
(a.k.a. Nymphaea alba; water lily, seerose)
References
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