Page f4r
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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f4r = AG (Rene) = p007 (Stolfi)
Folio: f4
Panels: f4r
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,red (Reeds), leaves_red,white,green (Rene)
Plant: 6 (Petersen)
Description
One plant, mostly in the right half of the page.
Two paragraphs (unit P) with 3.8 and 8.6 lines, both above
mid-page. The first is left- and right-justified, and interrupted
once by the flowers; the second is left-justified and follows the
plant's outline on the right.
The lower stem (between the root and the baggy sleeves) is badly
faded, together with the nearby parts of the root.
There may be faint
Rene [04 Apr 1999] observes that there is an 'F' marking on the
rightmost flower. He also reads the markings on the stem as "tau,
omicron, tau" (the latter rotated 90 degrees), and says that the
ink looks the same as on the rest of the page.
Comments
Plant appearance: very normal, exceptionally well-drawn. The layout
of leaves and flowers is very naturalistic. The "dark painter"
apparently spared it.
The faded parts (lower stem and roots) may have been erased.
If that is the case, it must have happened before the
"Greek letters" were written.
Stolfi [10 apr 1999] suggests that the "Greek letters" on the stem
may be "rot" (German for "red") in Rene's German alphabet[1]. He
also suggests that the "F" may be a `paint-by-number' code meant
for the painter [2].
References
[1] Fritz Saxl, book about astronomical and astrological images in
medieval manuscripts.
[2] THE MANUSCRIPT BOOK, by Graham D. Caie and Stephen Harris.
http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/AllSeafarer/book/BookNar.html
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