Page f39r
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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f39r = EM (Rene) = p075 (Stolfi)
Folio: f39
Panels: f39r
Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39
Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: B (Currier)
Hand: 2 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Colors: green,tan,brown (Reeds), blue(pod),yellow(flower)
Plant: 75 (Petersen)
Description
One plant flush against the left, right and bottom edges of the page,
filling the bottom half of the page.
Root: a very broad tuber, like a fat pancake with flat light
upper surface and dark edge. A ring of 19 "fat mousetail" roots---
dark, short and S-shaped---sprout from the edge; they seem
to support the "pancake" like the legs of a table.
Stem: many short straight stems sprout separately from the top surface
of the "pancake". Each stem ends with a leaf.
Branches: occasional short branches, each having a
single leaf at the tip.
Leaves: two spindle-shaped leaves fused at the base, forming a
"V" with fat arms and pointed tips. No leaf stalks.
Flowers: a single flower.
Stalk: longish. Chalyx: spindle-shaped, with small triangular
sepals. Petals: seven small scale-shaped petals. Core: small.
There are three paragraphs of text (with 4.3, 3.4, 5.9 lines)
above the plant, flush against the top margin. Below the third one
there is a centered line with 4-5 words; it may be part of the
paragraph. The first two paragraphs span margin-to-margin; the
last one is even on the left, and extends right up to the plant's
outline on the right, even touching it.
Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that the ink is darker
than in most pages.
On the top margin, left side, there is a printout of the
flower from f38v.
Comments
An almost identical copy of this drawing appears on f95r2. The
drawing on this page is drawn with more skill, and the flowers are
more detailed. The root is flatter, and its upper surface is
ligher. Also the flowers sprout from the side of the stem, not
from its tip as in f95r2.
References
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