Page f68v2
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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f68v2 = II (Rene) = p127 (Stolfi)
Folio: f68
Panels: f68v2
Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)
This page is the second innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out.
Brumbaugh p41, called f.68r by him.
Attributes
Language: ? (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
Subject: astronomical
Colors: blue(lozenge_star),yellow(windmill),blue(some_stars) (Reeds)
Description
The page contains a circular diagram, under a paragraph
with 5.0 lines (unit P). The last line is interrupted
by the diagram.
The diagram is framed by a circular band of text (unit C),
between two concentric mechanically drawn thin circles. (An
extra-wide gap at 10:30 may be the starting point.)
rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the strokes are thinner than
in the main text.
At the center there is a figure that looks pretty much like a
flower, with eight almond-shaped petals. The petals have serrated
edges, and overlap randomly. (However some pairs of petals seem to
be fused.) The petals have been painted in a dark color.
At the very center of this "flower" there is an irregular star,
with twisted rays, in a different color.
The "flower"'s outline ia an eight-sided star, resembling two
concentric squares rotated 45 degrees apart. From the tips
of each "petal", there sprouts a straight narrow tendril.
Each tendril soon turns into a radial text line, reading outwards
(unit R). Some of the text is therefore upside down.
The eight sectors defined by these rays alternately contain a
bunch of unnamed stars, or two radial labels (unit S), collinear
and reading outwards, with a single star between them. Clockwise
from the division at 11:30 there are 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 1, 9, 1 stars,
i.e. 35 unlabeled ones and 4 labeled ones. The 03:00 sector (with 8
stars) has a speckled blotch behind and between two stars.
Comments
The small central flower may be the Sun. Or it may represent the
stamens/pistils of the large flower surrounding it.
The speckles in the 03:00 sector possibly represent a more distant
star cluster.
The radial lines should probably be read starting from 10:30, at
the gap in the outer text ring. Besides, that ray is the only one
that contains any EVA "p" (two of them).
References
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