Page f5r
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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f5r = AI (Rene) = p009 (Stolfi)
Folio: f5
Panels: f5r
Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: 1 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Colors: green,b (Reeds), different_greens (Rene)
Plant: 8 (Petersen)
Description
One plant, horizontally centered, reaching only 3/4 up the page.
Root: five unbranched roots, mostly horizontal. Each root looks
like an earthworm, light-colored with a few dark dots, with a
short and fat swelling about 4/5 of the way to the tip.
Stalk: straight, vertical, slightly tapered, uncolored(?).
Leaves: a single ring of large, lance shaped leaves, closely spaced,
attached mid-stem with no stalks. The leaves curl down in a semicircle,
like an umbrella, until they almost touch the stem again; their thin
tips curl further into hooks. Dark overpaint.
Flowers: one, at tip of stem, pointing up.
Stalk: medium, thin, uncolored(?); extension of stem. Chalix:
thimble-shaped, partial dark overpaint. Petals: long, hair like,
drooping. Core: hemispherical, like a bubble.
Two paragraphs (unit P) with 3.6 and 2.5 lines, both above the plant,
left- and right-justified.
Comments
The plant looks very strange but not impossible. The oddest
details are the position of the tubers, the shape and disposition of
the leaves, their curled tips, the "shaggy" flower.
References
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