Page f67v1
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Identification
Title: "Happy sun"
Page: f67v1 = ID (Rene) = p122 (Stolfi)
Folio: f67
Panels: f67v1
Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)
This is the innermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out
Attributes
Language: ? (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
Subject: astronomical
Colors: yellow(most_stars), green(some_stars),blue(hairline) (Reeds)
Description
The page contains only a circular diagram. At the center there is
a large sun with 18 narrow undulating rays (with two of them
joined; see below). The sun has a face with a short "frame" beard,
broad smile, crossed eyes, a blue hairband (or a skullcap with
blue finge?). At the temples, two locks of light wavy hair escape
from under the cap.
There are 17 short titles radiating out of the center, towards the
diagram's outer frame (unit Y). Each of these radial titles
starts near the tip of a sun ray, except for the title at 02:00,
which is connected by thin wavy lines to the tips of two sun rays,
at 02:00 and 02:30. The text reads outwards, so it is upside down
from 06:30 through 11:30.
In each sector between consecutive radial titles there are from
one to four stars, 39 in total. Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that
some stars are green. Clockwise from the double sun ray,
the counts per sector are
*
* * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
3 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2
Around the diagram there is a narrow band divided into segments, 6
at the top and 6 at the bottom. The band has wide gaps at left and
right, where it gets too near the margin. Each segment contains a
label enclosed in a decorative frame (unit X).
Comments
The double ray may be where the stext starts. This guess is
supported by the line-initial EVA "p". (There is another "p" at
04:15 and an "f" at 06:30, but they are not line-initial.)
It is not certain that the labels in the outer band are
associated with the rays. The gap on the left side is
definitely empty, and that on the right appears to be so.
Thus there are only 12, or at most 14, labels in the band.
The decoration in the outer band includes 24 copies of the
"notched square" symbol, with double vertical edges.
References
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