Page f72r2
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Identification
Title: "Gemini"
Page: f72r2 = KD (Rene) = p138 (Stolfi)
Folio: f72
Panels: f72r2
Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
This page is the central recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out.
Attributes
Language: ? (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
Subject: zodiac
Colors: green,blue(dress_on_center) (Reeds), green(left_guy),blue(right_lady) (Rene)
Description
Three concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn
circles. A short radial stroke at 10:30 in the inner ring may be the
starting place.
In the centre there are two human figures, apparently a man and a woman,
holding each other hands---left in left, below, and right in right, above.
The man wears a wide hat, a shirt with long narrow sleeves,
ring collar, simple belt, a skirt with trimmed edge reaching below the knee,
and boots. The woman wears an elaborate draped dress, with ring collar,
broad sleeves with wrist bands, a small bonnet with long hair or a veil
hanging down her back, and a skirt that drags on the floor. Between
the two figures is a word in the latin alphabet (``Jony'' according to
Robert Firth.
Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are 9 naked
human figures or "nymphs", all female, each standing with the
right hand on her hip, holding a star with her left.
Between the middle ring and the outer ring there are 16 nymphs,
standing, each holding a star with the left hand. Four are clothed,
the rest is naked. Most are definitely women (with visible breasts);
the rest are probably women, or could be. Three of the figures two
of them clothed) are standing on top of horizontal cylinders,
resembling the ones on f70v2. Usualy the right hand is resting on
the hip, but in a couple of cases the right arm is drooping by the
victim's side, or straight down and back, and one figure (at 04:00)
has the arms streched out horizontally.
Standing on top of the diagram, outside the text circle, are another 5
naked women, right hand on the hip, each holding a star.
All figures are drawn in 3/4 view, between frontal and clockwise-facing.
Some of the figures are walking. Some of the figures have hats.
Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.
Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that this folio is all curled up.
Comments
The sign of Gemini, the Twins, has sometimes been represented by a
man and woman. Gemini is ??? to ???.
References
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