Page f71r
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Identification
Title: "Aries light"
Page: f71r = KA (Rene) = p135 (Stolfi)
Folio: f71
Panels: f71r
Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: ? (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
Subject: zodiac
Colors: green,yellow,blue,red (Reeds), green(floor,bush),uncolored(goat),white(dress_inner_08:00),green(dress_inner_05:30,outer_02:00,outer_06:00),brown(other_dresses),greens+blues(tubs) (Rene)
Description
A circular diagram defined by six faint mechanically drawn
concentric circles, forming three narrow bands. The two outer bands
each contain a ring of text, broken by a decorated section in each
band, at 10:00.
In the center there is an animal resembling a beardless goat,
uncolored, nibbling at a bush, standing on a scalloped (rocky ?)
ground, painted green. Below it is a non-voynich word "ab*i*l".
In the space between the inner and middle bands there are 5
nymphs, and 10 more in the space between the middle and outer
band. Each nymph is standing inside an upright barrel, with a star
or flower next to her head. Some stars have tails
(or stems); some nymphs are holding their stars, by a ray or by
the tail, others are pointing at them, some have their both hands
on the hips. All but one of the nymphs are heavily dressed, and
none have salient breasts or visible nipples.
Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that the barrels are painted with
greens and blues. The dresses are all brown except for the
inner ones at 08:00 (white) and 05:30 (green), and the outer ones
at 02:00 and 06:00 (green).
There is a label clockwise from each nymph.
Rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum ofthis folio is thinner
than average.
Comments
Presumably, the "notched square" devices at 10:30 may be the "start
here" mark of the circular text bands.
The goat is drawn better than the dark Aries (f70v1), and its legs
bend the right way, unlike those of the light Aries (f71r). The
nymphs (and the barrels), on the other and, are even worse than
those of dark Aries.
References
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