Page f3v
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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f3v = AF (Rene) = p006 (Stolfi)
Folio: f3
Panels: f3v
Bifolio: bA3 = f3+f6
Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: 1 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Colors: b,green,red (Reeds) red(root),green(stem),striking_blue_indigo(pods) (Rene)
Description
One plant, flush against the bottom and right margins of the page.
Root: single long root, consisting of six "telescoping" conical
segments, dark painted, with flat light-painted top. Tip of root
is bent into a hook and ends with a small round knob.
Stem: long, straight, vertical, with a dark "shadow" stripe
crudely painted along its length.
Branches: none.
Leaves: paired, disk shaped with two "tails", two "arms", and a
swallowtail-shaped "head", with long outward-curved tips.
Stalks: medium length, thin.
Flowers: two, very unequal size, growing out of the tip of the stem.
Stalks: short, thin, like leaf stalks. Calyx: heavy, swollen,
shaped like a sweet potato cut in half, dark painted. Petals:
single row, light, semicircular, very small. Core: flat,
light-colored, filled with dots; looks like a pepper shaker.
Two paragraphs (unit P) with 6.0 and 7.5 lines, both in the top
half of the page. The text is left-justified and follows the plant
outline on the right.
Comments
The plant looks quite strange. The telescoping root is hard to
explain. The leaf shape is unusual but not impossible. The bloated
flower chalices are very strange; they may have been drawn from
pressed and dried specimens.
References
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