Page f72v3
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Identification
Title: "Leo"
Page: f72v3 = KF (Rene) = p140 (Stolfi)
Folio: f72
Panels: f72v4, f72v3
Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
This page spans the two outermost verso panels of an eight-panel
fold-out. (The outermost panel is about 1/3 the width of a normal
one.)
Attributes
Language: ? (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
Subject: zodiac
Colors: ??? (Reeds), blue_dots(lioness),brick(crown) (Rene)
Description
[To be checked and completed]
Three concentric rings of text, deimited by six faint mechanically
drawn circles. The outer and inner rings have wider word gaps
at 08:45. (The middle ring crosses a fold at that point).
In the centre is an animal resembling a lioness, facing west. The
animal has a very short and sparse mane, and a long tail ending in
a tuft of hair. The tail curved down, between or behind the rear
legs, then up behind body, and then forward. The right front paw
is lifted and points West. The animal has a muzzle similar to that
of the nibbling animal in f???, and is showing a longish, narrow,
pointed tongue.
Below the lion is a non-Voynichese word, possibly "augst" in
lowercase Latin letters. There may be a dot over the first leg of
the "u". The "s" looks like an uncrossed "f" with a straight
descender. The "t" looks like an EVA "c".
The three rings of text define two bands containing human figures
(12 in the inner band, 18 in the outer one), all naked, in 3/4
view (between frontal and facing clockwise). Each figure holds a
star with the left hand. The right hand is generally on the hip.
All the figures are naked. Most have visible breasts and
shoulder-long hair.
Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.
Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that this folio is all curled up.
Comments
The animal at the center is probably a lion, the astrological
symbol for Leo. Leo is ??? to ???.
References
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