Page f8r
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Identification
Title: "The Bat-Plant"
Page: f8r = AO (Rene) = p015 (Stolfi)
Folio: f8
Panels: f8r
Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8
Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: 1 (Currier)
Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
Subject: herbal
Colors: green (Reeds)
Plant: 14 (Petersen)
Description
One plant with a single, big, odd-shaped leaf and a "collar"
around its stem, horizontally centered and spanning the page
vertically from edge to edge.
Three paragraphs (units P1,P2,P3), respectively with 6.5,
3.6, 6.6 lines, left- and right-justified and interrupted by the
plant's stem, fill up the bottom 3/4 of the page. Each paragraph
is followed by a right-justified two-word title (units
T1,T2,T3).
Comments
The plant is very strange, both for the leaf shape and for the
"collar" around the stem. Perhaps it is a mushroom, which the
artist mistook for a plant and tried to draw as such?
The text format too is quite unusual, both in its length and in
the presence of titles. It may be significant that this page is on
the same bifolio (but not on the same face) as page f1r, whose
text has a similar structure.
References
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