# Interlinear archive of Voynich manuscript transcriptions. # # Derived from INTERLN.EVT file version 1.6 # Created by Gabriel Landini, 27 September 1996. # # Split into separate files (one per textual unit) # by J. Stolfi, 10 october 1997. # # Added a few labels and titles, and edited comments # by J. Stolfi, through 04 november 1997. # # Unfolded '[|]' choices into separate lines # by J. Stolfi, 05 november 1997. # # Mapped to the EVA encoding, Released as interln16e1.tgz # by J. Stolfi 05 Nov 1997. # # Added Grove's labels and titles, split # some units, fixed "IK"->"ik" bug, corrected many typos. # by J. Stolfi 31 mar 1998. # # Added unit f75r.L, added Grove's version of f75r.P. # by J. Stolfi 02 may 1998. # # Split unit f75v.P into f75v.{P1,P2,P3}. # by J. Stolfi 04 may 1998. # # Renumbered units f68v3.{X,Y} to f69v.{X,Y}. # Renumbered units f68v2.{X,Y,Z} to f70r1.{X,Y,Z}. # by J. Stolfi 01 Oct 1998 # # Transcribed several more units, fixed bugs. # by J. Stolfi up to 04 Oct 1998 # # Split f86v3.P into f86v3.{P1,P2,P3,P4,Q}. # Abolished the "astro"/"cosmo" distinction; it is all "cosmo" now. # by J. Stolfi 04 Oct 1998 # --- begin comments by G. Landini ----------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:17:45 by stolfi # # INTERLN.EVT # file version 1.6 # by Gabriel Landini, 27 September 1996. # # file version 1.7 # 9 February 1998 # Prepared by Gabriel Landini, 27 September 1996. # # This file is an interlinear version of the Voynich manuscript # transcriptions from: # a) P. Currier + new additions by the VMS list members (Jim Gillogly, # Jim Reeds, Mike Roe 1990-1994) # b) the First Study Group (W. Friedman 1945-1949) # c) other pages transcriptions (Don Latham 1996, Mike Roe 1996, # John H. Tiltman 1951, Karl Kluge 1992, Jim Reeds 1996) # # Please report any problems to: G.Landini@bham.ac.uk or to the Voynich # list: Voynich@rand.org # # To join the Voynich list, send e-mail to Voynich-request@rand.org # # I will be responsible for keeping this file corrected and updated, so if # you find any corrections, please contact me so they can be included in # the next version of this file. # All credits and thanks to the members of the Voynich list who made the # original transcriptions available on line. # # This file was produced for the EVMT project (European Voynich Manuscript # Transcription) by G. Landini and R. Zandbergen. # We intend to transcribe the whole manuscript from T. C. Petersen's hand # transcription of a set of photostats (1931) and from previous trans- # criptions available in machine readable format. The transcription will # use the EVA alphabet that will allow translation of the document into # the three most common alphabets associated with the manuscript: FSG # alphabet, Currier's alphabet and Frogguy (by Jacques Guy). # # INTERLN17.EVT is based on the files: # voynich.now, FSG.NEW and tiltman.txt with some small corrections. # The Currier version was originally coded in Currier's alphabet. # I translated it to FSG "enhanced" alphabet using Jacques Guy's BITRANS # program and a set of rules CUR2FSG2 based on a message by Jim Reeds to # the Voynich mailing list. # The FSG alphabet does not contain the Currier characters 6 and 7. To # preserve these, characters 6 and 7 were kept unchanged in the resulting # FSG version. Currier 6 usually corresponds to K in FSG, while 7 was # transcribed as K or 8 by the FSG team. # # I added a few "end of line" - and "end of paragraph" = marks where missing # to keep line lengths equal between versions. # All double spaces ",," were replaced with single spaces. # # Format of this file: # ------------------- # a) Lines starting with the hash symbol # are comments (can be ignored). # b) All other lines have information which is either: # 1) a folio indicator plus "parsable information" (one per folio), or # 2) a locus indicator plus Voynich text (may have in-line comments). # # Folio and locus indicators appear in angle brackets <>. # The format of the "folio indicator" is: "f" plus the folio number, # plus "r" for "recto" or "v" for "verso", and sometimes a further number # for complex folios. Ex: indicates folio 1 verso. # # [ Folio indicator lines were turned into special #-comments, # by inserting "## " in front of them. --J. Stolfi ] # # Rene Zandbergen has added the Parsable Information to this file: # # A special type of in-line comment appears after the folio indicator. # We call this "parsable information". The information is coded in # "variables" set to values specific for that folio, to facilitate # the parsing and filtering using VTT. The variable names are single # characters preceded by the $ symbol and they take as value a single # character: # $I = illustration type (T,H,A,Z,B,C,P,S) # Text, Herbal, Astronomical, Zodiac, Biological, Cosmological, # Pharmaceutical or Stars. # $Q = Quire (A-T) # $P = page in quire (A-X) # $L = Currier's language (A,B) # $H = Currier's hand (1,2,3,4,5,X,Y) # $N = non-Voynich text (Y) # $K = key-like sequence (Y) # $X = extraneous writing (Y) # # Ex: {$I=H $Q=A $P=I $L=A $H=1 $N=Y} indicates a Herbal page # in quire A, page I, Currier Language A, hand 1 and has non-Voynich # text. Refer to the VTT documentation for details on how to use the # parsable information. # # All other lines have Voynich code starting at column 20. # # In the locus indicator, there is semicolon followed by a letter # that indicates the origin of the transcription: # # C: Currier's transcription plus new additions from members of the # voynich list as found in the file voynich.now. # F: First study group's (Friedman's) transcription including various # items as found in the file FSG.NEW. # T: John Tiltman's transcription of some pages. # L: Don Latham's recent transcription of some pages. # R: Mike Roe's recent transcription of some pages. # K: Karl Kluge's transcription of some labels from Petersen's copies. # J: Jim Reed's transcription of some previously unreadable characters. # # [ Additional codes introduced by J. Stolfi after 05 Nov 1997: # # D: second choice from [|] in "C" lines. # G: second choice from [|] in "F" lines, mostly from [1609|16xx]. # I: second choice from [|] in "J" lines. # Q: second choice from [|] in "K" lines. # M: second choice from [|] in "L" lines. # # N: Gabriel Landini's transcriptions. # U: Jorge Stolfi's transcriptions. # V: John Grove's transcriptions. # P: Petersen's transcriptions. # Z: Rene Zandbergen's transcriptions. # ] # # In some cases (mostly for labels) there is also information about the # label position (M. Roe's transcriptions) or about the original numbering # of the labels found in the Petersen's copies (K. Kluge's transcriptions). # I left that numbering untouched from the original files but it will be # changed and standardised in the new transcription exercise. # # Examples: # K. Kluge's transcription of label number 26A from Petersen. # M. Roe's transcription of text in a "circle" from # the file voynich.now. # # [ I later standardized the label location codes across versions, # in all cases where there were conflicts. The original location # codes were retained as '{}' comments. -- J. Stolfi 05 Nov 1997. ] # # [ Many more location codes were introduced when incorporating # John Grove's label and title collection. -- J. Stolfi 05 may 1998. ] # # In a few places there was a "first" line not present in one # of the other versions. These lines were numbered 0, or assigned letters. # Examples: # , , . # # [ Later renumbered "0a", "0b", etc.. -- J. Stolfi 05 Nov 1997 ] # # The % (percent) marks a missing character that exists at the same # location in the other versions and which breaks synchronism. # "Synchronism" means the vertical alignment of the sequences. Loss of # synchronism may be due to a missing character in that version or an # extra character in the other. # The Friedman version (FSG.NEW) is composed of various items and therefore # there are variations within FSG.NEW. These are indicated as [A|B], meaning # that one item has a character transcribed as an "A" and the other a "B". # # [ These '[|]' constructs were later unfolded into separate lines, # with their own transcription codes. -- J. Stolfi 05 Nov 1997 ] # # Because the brackets and the "or" symbol | also break the synchronism but # do not indicate any Voynich characters in the sequence, the exclamation # mark "!" was used to indicate that the other version has extra characters # that do not code Voynich text. # # As in the original transcription files, text limited by curly brackets {} # is a comment. The complementary sequence will have at this position a # number of !'s to compensate sequence length. # Examples: # # 8AN.OE%SCG.TODOE.K= # 8AN.OE.SCG.TODOE%K= # # the first % indicates a missing space in the Currier version which is # present in the FSG version. # # 4ODTOR.!O!!DTG.4OHO.GDOE.TODG.TODG.TOE.8AK- # 4ODTOR.[O|]DTG.4OHO.GDOE.TODG.TODG.TOE.8AK- # # The !'s in the Currier version indicate that the FSG version has # non coding characters at those locations. # # [ I had to remove the "!%" codes in the '[|]' unfolding process. # A few were latter added by hand. -- J. Stolfi 05 Nov 1997. ] # # In some particular instances there were several ways of coding the # missing symbols. In those instances the coding was chosen arbitrarily. # Sometimes the M character in one version corresponded to III in the # other which would mean that the following format would result: # ....M%%... # ....III... # Therefore the 2 extra %% may not be true missing symbols. # # Below is part of the original heading from one of the source texts. # # --- end comments by G. Landini ------------------------------- # --- begin comments by Jim Reeds ------------------------------ # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:18:05 by stolfi # # fsg.new # # 18 June 1994 # Jim Reeds # # Combined version of all First Study Group transcriptions found in # William F. Friedman Collection, Marshall Library, Lexington, Virginia. # # These are: # Item 1609, an almost complete transcription of all of the VMS # A transcription found in folder 1613, of f111v through f114r # An unnumbered item, seemingly a partial draft of 1609, of f41r - f58r # # Comments in item 1609 have not been transfered to this file. # # These have been edited together, with points of difference indicated # thus: toma[y|h]to, meaning the one version reads tomayto and the other # reads tomahto. # # Line ends have been marked with - and paragraph ends with = # # Line ends have been ruthlessly supplied from other partial transcriptions # of the VMS and in some cases from inspection of photocopies. # # Since much of the the FSG transcription was unchecked, there are numerous # transcription blunders, caused by eye skip, line omission, and possibly # by IBM card loss. In some cases these mistakes were so severe that it # was impossible to insert line ends correctly. # # --- end comments by Jim Reeds -------------------------------- # --- begin comments by J. Stolfi -------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:19:51 by stolfi # # Various changes made to Gabriel Landini's interlinear file v1.6. # Jorge Stolfi 12 Oct 1997 -- 05 Nov 1997 -- 02 May 1988 # 10 Oct 1998 # # * I added various new transcriptions, mainly by John Grove # and myself, plus some items by R. Zandbergen and R. Firth. That # meant creating many new text units and sometimes splitting or # renaming existing ones. # # * I moved all comments relating to a specific unit # to the beginning of that unit. Sometimes this required splitting, # rearranging, or otherwise editing the comments. # # * I removed all comments of the form "# page NNN" # since the numbering was inconsistent with the binding order. (For # one thing, the last page f116v, which should be even, was # numbered 235). # # * I added many comments where it seemed appropriate. # In particular I standardized the format of the page description # files (e.g. "f47r", without extension) and added to them # several scattered databases (such as Jim Reeds's color # usage tables, Petersen's plant names, etc.) # # * I replaced the word "folio" by "panel" or "page" where # it meant only one face of a folio (or one part of a multi-part # fold-out). # # * I regularized many location codes for labels and radial lines, # and made them resemble regular text locations. To each *set* of # labels in a text unit (e.g. all the stars, or all the spokes) I # assigned a single location code. I then assigned to each line of # each label a serial number starting from 1 (sometimes 0). Two or # more lines belonging to the same label got consecutive # numbers. (However, I may have failed to split some multiline # labels where the breaks are indicated by embedded "-"s and # comments.) # # * I appended a "=" to the end of each label and isolated text line. # # * I inserted a "-" between multiple lines belonging to # the same label, and at places where a label was interrupted by # vellum defects or graphical material (plants, stars, etc.). # # * I edited the location codes <...> of the labels so # that all transcriptions of the same label now have the same # location code. I retained the original location codes as "{}" # comments at the end of each line. # # * I replaced the "anonymous" location (prose-like text) # by and explicit "P" location, or "P1" and "P2" in pages # where the prose text was broken by labels or other text type. # Exception: on f66r (the three-way table), I used "R" for the # anonymous locus (the right-hand column). # # * I replaced the line numbers "a" and "b" to "0a" and "0b", # so that the line number now always begins with digit. # # * I replaced all "location declarations" (lines containing # only a location code <...> and no Voynich text) # by special "#" comments, almost compatible with # R. Zandbergen's VTX tool. These comments have the form # # ## {$I=i $Q=q $P=p $L=l $H=h $X=x} # # where # # "NNN" is a panel number (folio,side, and division, e.g f86v3) # "i" is the section code ("T" for text, "H" for herbal, etc.); # "q" is the quire code, a letter in [A-T]; # "p" is a letter in [A-Z] identifying the panel within the quire; # "l" is the "language" in Currier's sense, "A" or "B"; # "h" is the calligraphic "hand", a character in [1-5XY]; # "x" is a miscellaneous attribute (a letter). # # The "$L" and "$H" attributes are omitted when unknown. # The "$X" attribute is present only for page f17r, which # is marked "$X=U" (for the extraneous writing?). # # Note that there are some discrepancies between these "$I" # attributes and the section recorded in Stolfi's UNITS file. The # latter is more conservative, and assigns section "?" to some # text-only pages whose "$I"-codes were apparently assigned by # analogy with adjacent pages. # # * I created dummy files for all the missing pages (as deduced from # the folio numbers in the VMs itself). For that purpose, I assumed # each missing folio had only two panels (recto and verso), and # arbitrarily assigned them "$P"-codes higher than the "non-missing" # panels, and section "$I"-code "M" (for "missing"). # # * I replaced some non-FSG characters by "*" or valid FSG characters, # as it seemed appropriate, usually leaving the original as an {}-comment. # # * I fixed a few missing or bogus "-" and "=". # # * I fixed several typos, mostly cases where the last # character of a line was omitted and entered as a separate word on # the following line. (These errors were almost all in Friedman's # transcription.) # # --- end comments by J. Stolfi ---------------------------- # --- begin comments by J. Stolfi -------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:21:20 by stolfi # # Splitting Landini's interlinear file v1.6. # Jorge Stolfi 12 Oct 1997 # # Overview # # This directory contains a copy of Gabriel Landini's interlinear # transcription of the Voynich manuscript, version 1.6, split # into "textual units". # # Substantive changes # # This file ("f0.S") describes the splitting process only. # The Voynich text proper has been edited and reformatted to # some extent. These changes are described in companion # documents ("f0.U", "f0.E"). # # Textual units # # A textual unit is a maximal contiguous subset of a page that # has the same location code (excluding line number), and # a homogeneous "text structure", which is one of: # # "parags" # # apparently prose, in multi-line paragraphs # # "starred-parags" # # Like parags, but with a star-like symbol # in front of each paragraph. # # "itemized-parags" # # Like parags, but with a single Voynich letter or symbol # in front of each paragraph. Here the letters are indicated in # "{}" comments; they are also listed separately as a "letters" unit. # # "circular-lines" # # Text where each line is written around a circle # in some diagram. (Sometimes the starting point is not known.) # # "radial-lines" # # Text where each line is written along a ray in some diagram. # # "titles" # # Text where each line is a title for a page or figure. # # "itemized-lines" # # The right-hand column of an itemized list ("key-like sequence") # where each "item" is a line of text. # # "labels" # # List of labels attached to parts of figures. # Also the column of words from the table in f66r (page 117). # Here each label is terminated by "=", and multiple # lines of the same label are separated by "-". # # "letters" # # The single-letter labels in itemized lists. # Also the column of single letters in f66r (page 117). # Here each letter is terminated by "=". # # "-" # # No Voynich text, only comments. # # "?" # # Unknown text structure (for untranscribed or missing pages). # # Unit numbering and file names # # Each unit is stored as a separate file named "fNNN.L", where # "NNN" is the panel number (folio, side, and division, e.g. f85r2), # and L is the location code within the page. # # Descriptive comments that apply to a whole panel are stored in a # separate file named "fNNN" (without location code). Gabriel's # opening comments are stored in the file "f0.I". # # Note that it was sometimes necessary to split a page with N # distinct text types into more than N units, in order to preserve # the ordering of the text in Gabriel's file. For example, the # transcribed "pharma" pages have blocks of normal text alternating # with rows of labels; each block of text and each row of labels # have therefore been made into a separate unit. # # Any textual unit that spans multiple panels has been # assigned to the lowest-numbered of those panels. # # Detailed description of files # # A detailed description of the splitting can be found in # the "UNITS" file. Each line of UNITS describes one of the # textual units above; it contains 8 fields separated by ":" # # * a 4-digit sequence number, which can be used to sort the # units in their "natural" reading order # # * the file name (fNNN or fNNN.L) # # * the apparent subject matter: "herbal", "bio", "astro", "cosmo", # "pharma", "stars", "?" if unknown, or "-" if the file # contains no text. # # * the "language" in Currier's sense ("A", "B", "?" if unknown, "-" if no text). # # * the "hand" ("1..5", "X", "Y", "?", or "-") # # * the type of textual unit ("parags", "labels", etc.; see list above) # # * the sequential panel (page) number ("p001".. "p234"), in binding order # or "-" for files that are place-holders for missing folios. # # * other comments # # Any field may be followed by "?" denoting uncertainty. # # --- end comments by J. Stolfi ---------------------------- # --- begin comments by J. Stolfi -------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:21:54 by stolfi # # Unfolding alternative transcriptions # Jorge Stolfi 05 Nov 1997 # # To simplify further processing, I unfolded the '[|]' alternation # constructs used in Gabriel Landini's interlinear file v1.6. # Each line that included one or more such alternations was replaced # by a pair lines, one using only the first choice of every # alternation, the other using only the second choice out of every # alternation. # # For the extra lines resulting from the unfolding of '[|]' constructs, # I used these codes: # # D: second choice from "C" lines # G: second choice from "F" lines # I: second choice from "J" lines # Q: second choice from "K" lines # M: second choice from "L" lines # # Unfortunately I had to remove the "!" codes in the '[|]' unfolding # process, since they no longer provided the proper alignment # between the unfolded versions and un-unfolded versions. Fixing # this problem would have required processing all versions of of one # line at once, and effectively computing a consensus for it. The # "%" codes were retained, however. # # --- end comments by J. Stolfi ---------------------------- # --- begin comments by J. Stolfi -------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-09 22:22:28 by stolfi # # Mapping the interlinear file to the EVA encoding # Jorge Stolfi 05 Nov 1997 (Corrected 31 Mar 1998) # # This transformation was done with "fsg2eva", an AWK # script. The main step is the following: # # function fsg_to_eva(txt) # { # # Converts a chunk of comment-free FSG text to EVA # # # We discard "%" and "!" since the conversion # # will destroy synchronism anyway. # gsub(/[% !]/, "", txt); # # # Now convert # gsub(/IIIE/, "iiil", txt); # gsub(/IIIK/, "iiim", txt); # gsub(/IIIL/, "iiin", txt); # gsub(/IIIR/, "iiir", txt); # gsub(/IIE/, "iil", txt); # gsub(/IIK/, "iim", txt); # gsub(/IIL/, "iin", txt); # gsub(/IIR/, "iir", txt); # gsub(/IE/, "il", txt); # gsub(/IK/, "im", txt); # gsub(/IL/, "in", txt); # gsub(/IR/, "ir", txt); # gsub(/HZ/, "cth", txt); # gsub(/PZ/, "cph", txt); # gsub(/DZ/, "ckh", txt); # gsub(/FZ/, "cfh", txt); # gsub(/2/, "s", txt); # gsub(/4/, "q", txt); # gsub(/6/, "g", txt); # gsub(/7/, "j", txt); # gsub(/8/, "d", txt); # gsub(/A/, "a", txt); # gsub(/C/, "e", txt); # gsub(/D/, "k", txt); # gsub(/E/, "l", txt); # gsub(/F/, "f", txt); # gsub(/G/, "y", txt); # gsub(/H/, "t", txt); # gsub(/I/, "i", txt); # gsub(/K/, "m", txt); # gsub(/L/, "n", txt); # gsub(/M/, "iin", txt); # gsub(/N/, "in", txt); # gsub(/O/, "o", txt); # gsub(/P/, "p", txt); # gsub(/R/, "r", txt); # gsub(/S/, "sh", txt); # gsub(/T/, "ch", txt); # gsub(/V/, "v", txt); # gsub(/Y/, "x", txt); # # return txt # } # # This procedure was applied to the Voynich text proper, preserving # the '#' and '{}' comments as well as the location codes. # # I had to edit manually some '{}' comments that contained Voynich # characters in FSG or Currier notation. The affected pages are # # f100r.P1 f100r.m f100v.M f103r.P f104r.P f49v.P f65v.P # f66r.R f76r.R f89r1.b f89r2.b # # Note: The 05 Nov 1997 version of this script incorrectly mapped "IK" to # "ik" instead of "im". This error affected 79 lines of Gabriel Landini's # interlinar v1.6, representing about 50 distinct words. The error was # corrected on 31 Mar 1998, by manually editing the EVA translation of # those lines. The endings "IIIK", "IIK", and "K" were not affected by # this error. # # The following is a cumulative list of other format and alignment bugs # that were fixed by hand in the EVA translation, up to 05 may 1998: # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # deleted whole line. # added "okar." at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 4 and 5. # replaced "." by "-" between words 4 and 5. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # added "on" at end of line. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # deleted "on." from beginning of line. # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." from beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m" at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # # added "s" at end of line. # deleted "s." at beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # added "iiin" at end of line. # deleted "iiin." at beginning of line. # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # added "r" at end of line. # deleted "r." from beginning of line. # # replaced by "{missing line}" comment. # truncated after "chocthy.s". # new line, same as old . # new line, with the part of old after "chocthy.s". # # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # deleted "*." at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4, 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4, 5 and 6. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 4 and 5. # # added "a" at end of line. # deleted "a." at beginning of line. # # deleted "y." at beginning of line. # deleted ".oeor" at end of line. # added "oeor." at beginning of line. # # added "in" at end of line. # deleted "in." at beginning of line. # # added "r" at end of line. # deleted "r." at beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # bogus "=" in middle of line; replaced by ".". # replaced by "{missing line}" comment. # truncated after "ctho.dol". # added old at beginning of line. # added the truncated part of old at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # deleted "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # replaced "." by "-" between words 7 and 8. # deleted extra "-" between words 5 and 6. # deleted "--" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 4 and 5. # replaced "." by "-" between words 5 and 6. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 6 and 7. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4. # replaced "." by "-" between words 4 and 5. # replaced "." by "-" between words 3 and 4. # inserted "-" in word 4 between "cth" and "chyd". # # added "im" at end of line. # deleted "im." from beginning of line. # added "iin" at end of line. # deleted "iin." at beginning of line. # # added "r" at end of line. # deleted "r." at beginning of line. # # deleted starting from "ykeeo" # created from parts of lines 2 and 4. # deleted up to "lkedy". # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # added "f" at end of line. # deleted "f." at beginning of line. # # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # replaced "." by "-" between words 2 and 3. # added ".es" at end of line. # deleted "es." from beginning of line. # replaced "." by "-" between "oky" and "otal. # replaced "." by "-" between "oky" and "otal. # added "iin" at end of line. # deleted "iin." at beginning of line. # replaced "." by "-" between "oky" and "cheol". # replaced "." by "-" between "oky" and "cheol". # replaced "." by "-" between "chy" and "daiin". # replaced "." by "-" between "chy" and "daiin". # replaced "." by "-" between "chckhy" and "ar.aiin". # replaced "." by "-" between "chckhy" and "ar.aiin". # replaced ".-" by "-". # replaced ".-" by "-". # # moved "iir.amm." to end of line. # "chZt" replaced by "chcth" (from ";C>" version). # # added "iir" at end of line. # deleted "iir." at beginning of line. # # added "in" at end of line. # deleted "in." at beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # added "p" at end of line. # deleted "p." at beginning of line. # # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." from beginning of line. # # added "r" at end of line. # deleted "r." at beginning of line. # # bogus "=" in middle of line; split off piece as line 14a. # # added "m" at end of line. # added "m" at end of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # deleted "m." at beginning of line. # # leading ".", deleted. # replaced "-d.dshedy" on by "d-". # 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Stolfi ---------------------------- # --- begin glossary -------------------------- # Last edited on 1998-10-20 00:01:04 by stolfi # # Glossary of terms used in the page descriptions # # /crease/ # An *accidental* crease in the vellum (cf. /fold/). # # /fold/ # An *intentional* fold in the vellum, namely between # panels of a fold-out. # # /gutter/ # The fold where a /bifolio/ is sewed to the book. # # /quire/ # A stack of /bifolios/ that was folded and bound as a unit. The # quires of the book are identified with letters `A' to to `T', # front to back, which may be written `qA' thru `qT' for clarity. # Rene Zandbergen has a detailed description of all quires and # bifolios. # # /bifolio/ # A connected piece of vellum, usually consisting of two /folios/ # joined across the /gutter/. The notation bQK will be used to # denote the Kth bifolio of quire Q, counting from 1 (the outermost # one). # # /folio/ # A piece of vellum defined on one side by the gutter and three free # edges. In the big fold-out, the two folios (85 and 86) are # separated by the gutter and the vertical fold that is collinear # with it. # # /f-number/ # The standard folio number, usually written fNN where NN is the # original number written in the manuscript, usually at the top of # the /recto/ side. # # /side/ # One of the two surfaces of a /folio/ or /bifolio/. The sides of folio # fNN are denoted fNNr and fNNv, for /recto/ and /verso/, respectively. # # /recto/ # The /side/ of a /folio/ that you see when the /gutter/ is on the # left, the book is in its normal orientation, and the folio is # completely unfolded. # # /verso/ # The /side/ of a /folio/ opposite to the /recto/ side, i.e. the one # that you see when the /gutter/ is at right. # # /free edge/ # A straight section of the physical boundary of a /bifolio/. # # /edge/ # Either a /free edge/ or a /fold/. # # /panel/ # A rectangular partition of one side of a /folio/, delimited by # four /edges/. Thus a simple folio has two panels, recto and verso, # denoted by fNNr and fNNv where fNN is the folio number. In # fold-outs, panels are numbered fNNrK or fNNvK, starting from the # innermost panel (adjacent to to the gutter, K=1) and increasing # outwards (towards the vertical free edge of the folio). Jim Reeds # has a very detailed description of how the complex folios are # folded, including panel numbers. # # /page/ # One or more adjacent panels that are to be read as a unit, e.g. # because the contents is laid out without regards for the # separating edges. A page is identified by the number of its # innermost panel (the one that is closest to the gutter). # # /contents/ # Of a page, the text and drawings in it. # # /margin/ # Each of the four imaginary straight lines (top, bottom, left, # right; or North, South, West, East) that seem to bound the normal # text in a page. They usually lie a couple of centimeters inwards # relative to the panel's edges. Note that drawings and labels may # extend beyond the margins. # # /word/ # A sequence of characters (Voynichese by default) not broken by # /word spaces/ or graphical material. # # /word space/ # A space between two character that is noticebly wider than the # average spacing. # # /text line/ # A linear arrangement of characters, mostly straight or circular, # with their `up' directions perpendicular to the overall line # direction, and that (presumably) must be read consecutively. Note # that a text line may be /interrupted/ by graphical elements, # folds, vellum defects, etc. # # /text ring/ # A circular text line that covers almost one full circle. # # /text block/ # A set of two or more consecutive lines of text, stacked # perpendicularly to the reading direction not more than a couple of # character heights apart, and which presumably are to be read in # sequence. Note that a text block may consist of concentric # circular lines, and may comprise one or more /paragraphs/. # # /text edge/ # The two imaginary lines, not necessarily straight, that connect # the left end right endpoints of successive lines in a text block. # # /paragraph/ # A text block where the spacing between /text lines/ is uniform and # close to the minimum, and which presumably is a single sequence of # words arbitrarily broken into lines to fit the available space. # Typically, at least one of the text edges is straight or follows # the outline of an adjacent figure. The number of lines of a # paragraph is usually given as M.N, where M is the number of whole # lines, and N/10 is the width of the last line, relative to the # total width available for it (not counting any space taken up by # figures, folds, creases). # # /left justified/ # (Of a text block) whose left text edge is straight and vertical. # # /right justified/ # (Of a text block) whose right text edge is straight and vertical, # except possibly for the last lines of paragraphs. # # /label/ # A short text line, containing only a couple of words, that is # placed next to a figure or in a cell of a diagram. # # /title/ # A text line that is placed next to a figure or in a cell of a # diagram, and is longer than a couple of words; or is placed above # or below a paragraph, but cannot be assumed to be part of it. # # /star/ # A star-shaped figure with straight sharp-pointed rays, possibly # with interior detail. # # /tail/ # (Of a star) a single curved line attached to the star's outline. # # /notched square/ # A design often found in circular bands around diagrams. It # consists of a squarish sector of the band, containg four small # "u"s, each connected to one side by both arms. The radial sides of # the square are often doubled or tripled. Sometimes there are also # dots in the center and/or near the four corners. This design seems # to be used as a decoration in some diagrams (e.g. on f67v1, the # "happy sun" page) and as a start-of-text marker in others (e.g # f71r, the "Aries light" page.) # # /nymph/ # A human figure of female or indeterminate sex, with full or # partial body which may have merely a decorative or exemplary # purpose. E.g. the figures in the biological section, or around the # zodiac diagrams; but not the figures in the zodiac signs # themselves, or the sun/moon faces. # # /breasts/ # Visible female breasts, bare or clothed. # # /mechanically drawn/ # The opposite of freehand. Said of straight lines that seem to have # been traced with ruler. Also said of circles that seem to have # been drawn with compass, or by tracing some round object. # (Jim Reeds, reporting on his Beinecke visit [13 Jul 94], says that # "there were no pricks or pounce marks, no rulings except # on the circular diagrams.") # # # --- end glossary -------------------------- ## {$I=T $Q=A $P=A $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 19:49:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "First page" # Page: f1r = AA (Rene) = p001 (Stolfi) # Folio: f1 # Panels: f1r # Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: T (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only). # Colors: red (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains four paragraphs (with 4.6, 2.4, 9.5, 5.5 lines, # respectively), each followed by a short right-justified title. # # Paragraphs 2 and 3 begin with big "weirdo" doodles, very unlike # normal Voynichese letters. The first (EVA &252) looks like a # capital K lying on it side, with the vertical bar at the bottom. # The second (EVA &253) looks like the first, with an extra # squiggly line rising from between the two "horns". The two symbols # are drawn or painted with flaring strokes ending in swallowtail # serifs. # # A 1-inch band along the right margin is heavily stained. There # seem to be two or three columns of letters ("key like sequences") # in that band, which are barely visible in the reproductions. # # There is a faint unreadable text at the top of the page, # apparently in cursive handwriting. # # Comments: # # The page layout suggests four quotes with attributions, or signed # endorsements. # # The faint scribbling at the top must be the signature # of Jacobus de Tepenecz, as asserted in many references. # # Jim Reeds writes [15 Jul 94]: "The erased key on f.1r is discussed # by Brumbaugh. It seems to have 3 vertical columns of letters. The # leftmost is the ordinary alphabet, lower case italic hand, a # through z. I could not check for the presence of every letter (I'm # not sure about j, for instance) but a, b, c, ... o, p, q, r, s, # ... y, z are pretty clear. Next to those are very spotty frags of # Voynich letters. I could make out <8> next to a, next to c, # <6> next to y, and one of the gallows letters somewhere near the # q, r, s range. [...] The 3d column seems to be 1 off from the # first: italic miniscules, r next to s, and so on. More is visible # in UV shots than Petersen shows." # # Brumbaugh reportedly claims that there was a date in the upper # right corner of f1r before it was obliterated by the application # of chemicals (intended to reveal faded writing). # # D'Imperio says that the "weirdo" characters EVA &252/&253 are in # bright red ink; confirmed by Glen Claston [20 Feb 1998] and Jim # Reeds [03 Mar 1998]. # # Rene [28 Jul 1997] found a medieval astrological diagram [1], in # Greek, where EVA &252 is used as a symbol for Aries, which is # "kruos" or "kryos" in Greek. # # Stolfi suggested [07 Aug 1998] that the symbols may be # abbreviations for "Koenig" and "KoenigiN" --- i.e. "K" and # "K"-with-squiggle. (How desperate can you get?) # # References: # # [1] Codex Taurinensis C VII 15 (author anonymous, no date avaliable). # http://www.ficom.net/members/ditch/secret.htm # # [2] John Grove # http://members.tripod.com/~VoynichMs/Prefix.htm ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=B $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:11:09 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Petersen's belladonna" # Page: f1v = AB (Rene) = p002 (Stolfi) # Folio: f1 # Panels: f1v # Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Petersen's plant 1 # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 1 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant centered on page. # # Root: a knobby, warped, pancanke-like tuber with # short roots attached like claws or fangs # all around the rim. Light color. # Stem: thick, well drawn. Light color. # Branches: one straight up, two oblique with drooping tips. # Leaves: broad lance-shape, with two short tails. # Stalk: short. # Flowers: one, growing at the tip of the center branch. # Stalk: very short. Chalyx: # conical, continuous with petals. Petals: short rounded, # light-colored. Core: hemispherical, dark-colored # (could be a berry; see below). # # Two paragraphs (with 3.8 and 5.8 lines), just below mid-page, # left- and right-justified, interrupted by the plant's main stem. # # Comments: # # Part of this drawing (root and leaves only) is repeated on # Pharma page f102r1[3,2]. # # The plant looks basically normal, except for the very peculiar # root. # # Petersen identifies the plant as "Solanum Solatrium, Belladonna" # specifically the "flower". He says: "see L.Fuchs p.398". There is # no "Solanum solatrium"; rather, "solatrium" is an ancient # (Dioscoridean) name for some or all of these species: # # Atropa Belladona (deadly nightshade) # http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/kohler/1763_010.jpg # http://130.60.70.1/GIFTDB/pict_02.htm # # Hyoscyamus niger (henbane) # http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/kohler/1763_011.jpg # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/110.html # # Solanum nigrum (black nightshade) # http://axp.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS/black_nightshade.html # # Solanum dulcamara (bittersweet) # http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/poison/ppstsleurop.htm # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/109.html # # and perhaps other somewhat less likely species such as Withania # somnifera and Physalis alkekengi. # # The leaves of f1v seem most compatible those of Atropa belladonna # (shape) and Hyoscyamus niger (attachment to stem), and the "flower" # at the top of f1v does resemble the sheathed, shiny black fruits of # these two species. # # However, A.beladonna's root has been described as a roundish rhizome # with a long (up to 1m) tapering root, which does not seem to match # the highly distinctive "pancake with claws" of f1v. I have found no # image or description of the other plants' roots. # # A very similar root, with quite different leaves, can be seen on # another Italian herbal: # University of Vermont Library MS 2, fol. 39 (ca. 1500) # http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/immi/vm9437.htm # The medieval text calls that plant "Gran[i]a maggiore". # The modern commentary tentatively identifies it with # Ecballium elaterium (Squirting Cucumber), # http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/mi10/mi10043.jpg # However the leaves do not match, and the flower barely so. # I have found no image or description of E.elaterium's roots. # # All four plants are poisonous in varying degrees. The active # principles can be absorbed by smoking or through the skin as well as # by ingestion. They were used as potent psychoactive drugs, causing # paralysis of involuntary muscles, dizziness, sleep, hallucinations, # violent behavior, etc., and have been often associated with # witchcraft. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=C $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 00:46:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Petersen's cornflower" # Page: f2r = AC (Rene) = p003 (Stolfi) # Folio: f2 # Panels: f2r # Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Plant: 2 (Petersen) # Colors: green,red (Reeds) # Plant: 2 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant centered on page. # # Root: left-right symmetrical, planar, looking sort of like # headless stick man with outstretched arms and gripping hands. # Overpainted with dark color. # Stem: short and thin. # Branches: two main ones, almost upright, slightly bent. # Irregular thickness, awkward shape (cf. top right leaf). # Light-clored with a dark vein grossly painted along the middle. # Leaves: Dark overpaint, shaped like a triangular fan with five # lanceolated fingers. Stalk: medium length, looks like a branch. # Flowers: three, on tip of main branch. # Stalk: longish, looks like a branch. Chalyx: an oblong oval # sweelling at end of stalk, partial dark overpaint. Petals: many, # narrow and long; the flower looks like a shaving brush. Core: # hidden by petals. # # Two paragraphs (with 6.4 and 5.4 lines), left- and rightjustified: # one at the top, slightly narrower, interrupted by three flowers; # and one near the bottom, interrupted by two branches. # # Comments: # # The root looks rather strange, the stems and leaves are # somewhat awkward, but the flowers look normal. # # Petersen tentative identification is "cyanus segetum, cornflower # (caeruleus) (cf 153)". That must be # # Centaurea_cyanus (cornflower,fiodaliso;bluet,kornblume) # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/7.html # # The flower shape and branching pattern seem to match fairly well. # However, those features are not very specific. [What about color?] # Also, the leaves of Centaurea cyanus are long and thin, with # smooth edges or a few very shallow teeth, attached directly to the # stem; quite unlike those of f2r. # # Infusions of Centaurea cyanus were once used as a febrifugue # (whole plant) and eye wash (flowers only). ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=D $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 00:49:47 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Water lily" # Page: f2v = AD (Rene) = p004 (Stolfi) # Folio: f2 # Panels: f2v # Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Plant: 3 (Petersen) # Colors: green (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant centered on page. # # Root: long straight rhizome, covered with scales or round stalk scars. # Stem: single, vertical, slightly bent, shooting out from middle # of rhizome; dark painted. # Branches: there is the stub of a lost branch at mid-stalk. # Leaves: a single large leaf, horizontal, shaped like a very fat C, # with smooth rim. Painted solid dark. # Stalk: short. # Flowers: one white flower, pointing almost straight up. # Stalk: long, light colored, with a darker vein; part of it # obscured by leaf which should be behind it. Chalyx: well-drawn, # with thick tongue-shaped sepals, light colored. Petals: # well-drawn, flaring, lily shaped, serrated edges, white # underpaint. Core: not visible. Stamen: long, with a few short # hairs. # # Two paragraphs (with lines, respectively), left- and # right-justified: one at the top, interrupted by the single flower, # and one just below mid-page, interrupted by the main stem. # # Comments: # # The plant looks quite natural and well-drawn. # # Presumably, the flower stem was in front of the leaf in the # original drawing; but the dark overpaint covered it. The original # outline of the leaf may have been obscured, too. # # The leaf shape suggests it is a water plant. With that assumption, # the choices are quite few. Rene suggested # # Nymphaea candida (a.k.a. Nymphaea alba; water lily, seerose) # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/pics/181.jpg # ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 00:51:40 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f3r = AE (Rene) = p005 (Stolfi) # Folio: f3 # Panels: f3r # Bifolio: bA3 = f3+f6 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the right margin. # # Roots: a bunch of unbranched tentacle-like roots radiating from # the stem's base. Light colored, partial dark overpaint. # Stem: rather thick, bent. Light colored, dark overpainted stripe (shadow) along # its left side. # Branches: none. # Leaves: lance-shaped with an S bend, very dense, # growing straight off the stem on both sides, each partially covering # the previous one. Stem ends with one unpaired leaf. Light colored, # with a dark-painted shadow on the bottom of each leaf, and # a dotted line just inside the leaf's rim. # Flowers: none. # # Four paragraphs (with 9.5, 3.5, 2.7, and 2.8 lines): a longer one # at the top, and three short ones just below mid-page. The first # two are left-justified and follow the plant's outline on the # right. The last two are left- and right-justified, and interrupted # by the main stem. # # Comments: # # The plant looks strange because of the dense leaves Perhaps they # are actually the sheaths of leafstalks, badly drawn? Perhaps the # dots along the leaf rim are short spines? ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 00:54:41 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f3v = AF (Rene) = p006 (Stolfi) # Folio: f3 # Panels: f3v # Bifolio: bA3 = f3+f6 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the bottom and right margins of the page. # # Root: single long root, consisting of six "telescoping" conical # segments, dark painted, with flat light-painted top. Tip of root # is bent into a hook and ends with a small round knob. # Stem: long, straight, vertical, with a dark "shadow" stripe # crudely painted along its length. # Branches: none. # Leaves: paired, disk shaped with two "tails", two "arms", and a # swallowtail-shaped "head", with long outward-curved tips. # Stalks: medium length, thin. # Flowers: two, very unequal size, growing out of the tip of the stem. # Stalks: short, thin, like leaf stalks. Calyx: heavy, swollen, # shaped like a sweet potato cut in half, dark painted. Petals: # single row, light, semicircular, very small. Core: flat, # light-colored, filled with dots; looks like a pepper shaker. # # Two paragraphs (with 6.0 and 7.5 lines), both in the top half of # the page. The text is left-justified and follows the plant outline # on the right. # # Comments: # # The plant looks quite strange. The telescoping root is hard to # explain. The leaf shape is unusual but not impossible. The bloated # flower chalices are very strange; they may have been drawn from # pressed and dried specimens. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 00:56:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f4r = AG (Rene) = p007 (Stolfi) # Folio: f4 # Panels: f4r # Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,red (Reeds) # Plant: 6 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, mostly in the right half of the page. # # Two paragraphs (with 3.8 and 8.6 lines), both above mid-page. The # first is left- and right-justified, and interrupted once by the # flowers; the second is left-justified and follows the plant's # outline on the right. # # Comments: # # Plant appearance: very normal, exceptionally well-drawn. The layout # of leaves and flowers is very naturalistic. The "dark painter" # apparently spared it. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:18:05 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f4v = AH (Rene) = p008 (Stolfi) # Folio: f4 # Panels: f4v # Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: brown,green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant, mostly in the right half of the page. # # Two paragraphs, both above mid-page. The first is left- and # right-justified; the second is left-justified, and follows the # plant's profile on the right. # # Comments: # # Plant appearance: very, very odd, badly drawn. It seems to have # two types of leaves. The lower ones are too small, badly spaced # and badly proportioned, and in unnatural positions. The upper ones # look like pompons. The root has a strange, ungainly shape (but # that may be the work of the Dark Painter). The stems have uneven # and unnatural thickness. # # This drawing is almost certainly an expanded version of plant # f101r1[1,5]. Stolfi suggested that the person who drew this page # thought that the star-shaped things in f101r1[1,5] were flowers, # so he supplied fantasy leaves; and he only noticed the mistake # halfway through the plant. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:07:10 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f5r = AI (Rene) = p009 (Stolfi) # Folio: f5 # Panels: f5r # Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,b (Reeds) # Plant: 8 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, horizontally centered, reaching only 3/4 up the page. # # Root: five unbranched roots, mostly horizontal. Each root looks # like an earthworm, light-colored with a few dark dots, with a # short and fat swelling about 4/5 of the way to the tip. # Stalk: straight, vertical, slightly tapered, uncolored(?). # Leaves: a single ring of large, lance shaped leaves, closely spaced, # attached mid-stem with no stalks. The leaves curl down in a semicircle, # like an umbrella, until they almost touch the stem again; their thin # tips curl further into hooks. Dark overpaint. # Flowers: one, at tip of stem, pointing up. # Stalk: medium, thin, uncolored(?); extension of stem. Chalix: # thimble-shaped, partial dark overpaint. Petals: long, hair like, # drooping. Core: hemispherical, like a bubble. # # Two paragraphs (with 3.6 and 2.5 lines), both above the plant, # left- and right-justified. # # Comments: # # The plant looks very strange but not impossible. The oddest # details are the position of the tubers, the shape and disposition of # the leaves, their curled tips, the "shaggy dog" flower. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:18:21 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Tennis racket plant" # Page: f5v = AJ (Rene) = p010 (Stolfi) # Folio: f5 # Panels: f5v # Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,b (Reeds) # Plant: 9 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One branching plant that takes up the lower 3/4 of the page. # # Root: two dark-painted potato-shaped tubers next to the stem, # with a few medium-length "mousetail" roots shooting from them. # Stem: straight and vertical, light under(?)color, with a fantastic # loop at the top. The stem's base is wrapped with a short uncolored # sheath. # Branches: several, diagonal, mostly straight. # Leaves: four lobes with serrated edges, naturalistically curved. # each lobe has a central vein. Stalks: medium-short, thin, look like # branches. Light coulored, many of them with crudely overpainted # dark splotches. # Flowers: several, medium-small, mostly upright, some drooping. # Stalk: short, sometimes bent by weight. Chalyx: rounded, light # colored, like a rose's but on the fat side. Sepals: short and # pointed, light colored. Petals: half a dozen, small, # tongue-shaped, spread out; dark overpaint almost but not # quite fills their outline. # # One paragraph (5.5 lines) above the plant, left- and # right-justified. # # Comments: # # The plant looks fairly normal, except for the fantastic # loop in the stalk. Leaves and flowers are very naturalistic, # but some are spoiled by the crude dark overpaint. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:11:32 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f6r = AK (Rene) = p011 (Stolfi) # Folio: f6 # Panels: f6r # Bifolio: bA5 = f3+f6 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 10 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, that takes up most of the right and bottom halves of # the page. # # One long paragraph (14 lines) at the top, left justified. The # first three lines are right-justified, the rest follows the # plant's profiel on the right. The first six lines are interrupted # by a flower or pod. # # Comments: # # It is not clear whether pods or flowers are # represented here. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:12:53 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f6v = AL (Rene) = p012 (Stolfi) # Folio: f6 # Panels: f6v # Bifolio: bA5 = f3+f6 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,b (Reeds) # Plant: 11 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, that takes up most of the right half of the page. # # Two paragraphs (4.8 and 15.8 lines) at the top, left-justified, # ending at mid-page. The first is right-justified too, and two of # its lines are interrupted by a flower. The second follows the # plant's outline on the right. # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=M $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:15:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f7r = AM (Rene) = p013 (Stolfi) # Folio: f7 # Panels: f7r # Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Petersen's plant 12 # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 12 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant with no leaves and a single huge flower, spanning the # entire height and width of the page. # # Root: a short, vertical, cylindrical stem that splits # into two almost horizontal mousetails. # Stem: straight, vertical. # Branches: none. # Leaves: none. # Flowers: a single flower at the tip of the stem. # Stalk: not visible, or indistinguishable from stem. # Chalyx: eight symmetrical sepals, shaped like long parabolas. # Corolla: four layers, of decreasing sizes, each having four # symmetric petals, located diagonally with respect to # the previous layer. Core: none. # # Two paragraphs (with 4.3 lines and 4.5 lines), both left- and # right-justified: one at the top, interrupted by the flower; one # just below mid-page, interrupted by the main stem. # # Comments: # # Petersen has identified this plant with high confidence # as # # Nymphaea alba (white water lily, seerose) # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/181.html # http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/nymphaea/nymph/nympcan2.jpg # # There is indeed a good match in the shape and arrangement of the # petals and sepals. Also, the lack of leaves and branches in f7v is # plausibly explained by the fact that Nymphaea's flowers float on # the water's surface, and thus may have been hidden from the # artist's view. # # But if f7v is Nymphaea alba, then what do we make of f2v? ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=N $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:17:29 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f7v = AN (Rene) = p014 (Stolfi) # Folio: f7 # Panels: f7v # Bifolio: bA2 = f2+f7 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 13 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, spanning from the bottom edge to 3/4 of the way to the # top. # # Two paragraphs (with 4.5 and 3.9 lines) at the top, left- and # right-justified. The last three lines of the second paragraph are # interrupted by the plant's flowers. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=O $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:25:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The Bat-Plant" # Page: f8r = AO (Rene) = p015 (Stolfi) # Folio: f8 # Panels: f8r # Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green (Reeds) # Plant: 14 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant with a single, big, odd-shaped leaf and a "collar" # around its stem, horizontally centered and spanning the page # vertically from edge to edge. # # Three paragraphs (with 6.5, 3.6, 6.6 lines), left- and # right-justified and interrupted by the plant's stem, fill up the # bottom 3/4 of the page. Each paragraph is followed by a # right-justified two-word title. # # Comments: # # The plant is very strange, bot for the leaf shape and for the # "collar" around the stem. Perhaps it is a mushroom (e.g. Amanita), # which the artist mistook for a plant and tried to draw as such? # # The text format too is quite unusual, both in its length and in # the presence of titles. ## {$I=H $Q=A $P=P $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:23:04 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f8v = AP (Rene) = p016 (Stolfi) # Folio: f8 # Panels: f8v # Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8 # Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke) # # Quire A, last page # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,b (Reeds) # Plant: 15 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, spanning top to bottom, slightly offset to the left. # # Two paragraphs (with 10.1 and 5.3 lines), left- and # right-justified: one next to the top margin, one next to the # bottom margin, both interrupted by the plant. # # There is a mark in the SE corner, resembling "^pm9" ("^" over the "p"), # with thick strokes. # # Comments: # # The mark in the SE corner is almost surely the quire number, # "1st" in abbreviated Latin. ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=A $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:29:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f9r = BA (Rene) = p017 (Stolfi) # Folio: f9 # Panels: f9r # Bifolio: bB1 = f9+f16 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 16 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant flush against the right margin, spanning the page # vertically edge to edge, with branches and roots that take up the # bottom 2/3 of the page. # # Two paragraphs (with 5 and 3.9 lines), left- and right-justified. # Both are interrupted by the plant's flower head. # # The second paragraph is followed by a centered title-like line # which may be the true last line of the paragraph. # # Comments: # # The unusual shape of the leaves should make the plant easy to identify. # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=B $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 22:43:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Viola tricolor" # Page: f9v = BB (Rene) = p018 (Stolfi) # Folio: f9 # Panels: f9v # Bifolio: bB1 = f9+f16 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Plant: 17 (Petersen; misnumbered 15 on his page 1) # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 17 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the right and bottom edges, reaching # almost to the top. # # Root: a bundle of thin wires. Dark overpaint? # Stem: one straight. Light color. # Branches: two symmetrical pairs, oblique. # Leaves: the four lower ones are medium width, lance-shaped, # with smooth edges; the others have the same outline but # are deeply cut into five narrow points. Dark color. # Stalk: short, mostly missing. # Flowers: five, at the tips of stem and branches. # Stalk: medium length, thin. Chalyx: flat or everted, with short # triangular sepals, partly hidden by corolla. Petals: five rounded # petals, a large one on top, the others like "arms and legs". Core: # very small. Medium and dark colors. # # Two paragraphs (with 3.7 and 7.7 lines) at the top, # left-justified. The first one is right-justified; the second one # follows the plant's profile on the right. Both are interrupted in # several places by the flowers and leaves. # # Comments: # # Petersen identifies this plant, with high confidence, as "Viola # trinitalis". I coudn't find such species, but "herba trinitatis" is # the herbalists' name for Viola tricolor (heartsease,wild pansy) [1,2,3]. # # Indeed, comparing f9v with a drawing by Carl Lindman [1], we see # an almost perfect match --- including the roots, and the two types # of leaves. # # Dennis Mardle [10 Oct 1998] observes that the details match also # Viola arvensis (field pansy), which hybridises with V. tricolor # and is very similar in shape, including especially the dimorphic # leaves [1,4]. # # The colors may help resolve this issue. The flowers of Viola # tricolor are usually purple and white with yellow core; Lindman's # drawing shows V. arvensis as white (or light blue?) with yellow # core. Jim Reeds color list [03 Mar 1998] reports some blue on this # page, to be confirmed. # # In either case, there is one odd detail: the flowers in f9v are # upside-down. Also the two bottom flowers are somewhat differen. # # Viola tricolor was used internally to treat epilepsy, asthma and # bronchitis (whole plant), as an emetic and purgative (seeds) and as # a heart tonic (flowers). Externally it was used to treat skin # diseases [2]. The flowers are reported to be edible. # # References: # # [1] Carl Axel Magnus Lindman # Bilder ur Nordens Flora # 227. A. Styvmorsviol, Viola tricolor L.; B. Åkerviol, Viola arvensis Murr. # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/ # http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/nordflor/227.html # # [2] Mrs. M. Grieve, F.R.H.S. # A Modern Herbal # Viola tricolor - Heartsease # http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/mgmh.html # http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/h/hearts10.html # # [3] ECNC DATABASE: SAXIFRAGA European Flora Slides # Viola tricolor ssp. tricolor # http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/ecnc/saxifrag/euroflor.html # http://www.ecnc.nl/gif/viotritr.gif # # [4] ECNC DATABASE: SAXIFRAGA European Flora Slides # Viola Arvensis Murr. # http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/ecnc/saxifrag/euroflor.html # http://www.ecnc.nl/gif/vioarv.gif # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=C $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:33:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f10r = BC (Rene) = p019 (Stolfi) # Folio: f10 # Panels: f10r # Bifolio: bB2 = f10+f15 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Kraus XXX (bottom) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green,red (Reeds) # Plant: 18 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the right and bottom edges, reaching # almost to the top. # # Two paragraphs (with 4.4 and 6.8 lines) at the top. They are left- # and right-justified, except for the last four lines of paragraph # 2, which follow the plan'ts outline on the right. Paragraph 2 is # interrupted by the flower stalk. # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=D $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:34:57 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f10v = BD (Rene) = p020 (Stolfi) # Folio: f10 # Panels: f10v # Bifolio: bB2 = f10+f15 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the bottom edge and the right margin, # reaching 2/3 of the way to the top. # # Two paragraphs (with 2.6 and 3.8 lines) at the top, # left- and right-justified, ending just above the plant. # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:43:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Spiny carrots" # Page: f11r = BE (Rene) = p021 (Stolfi) # Folio: f11 # Panels: f11r # Bifolio: bB3 = f11+f14 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green (Reeds) # Plant: 20 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Three plants with entwined leaves and carrot-like roots, # which take up the bottom 3/4 of the page. # # Two paragraphs (with 3.5 and 2.4 lines) at the top, # left- and right-justified. # # Comments: # # The plants look like carrot plants, but the "carrots" # are covered with spines or barbs, pointing up(!) # and two of the leaves seem to be shared by two plants(!!). ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:45:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f11v = BF (Rene) = p022 (Stolfi) # Folio: f11 # Panels: f11v # Bifolio: bB3 = f11+f14 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 21 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One large plant, flush against the right edge and spanning from # the top to the bottom. # # One paragraph (with 5.6 lines), just below mid-page, # left- and right-justified, interrupted by the # plant's twin stem. # # Comments: # ## {$I=M $Q=B $P=Y} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:44:43 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f12r = BY (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f12 # Panels: f12r # Bifolio: bB4 = f12+f13 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 12 is missing. # # Comments: # # Cut away after binding? ## {$I=M $Q=B $P=Z} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:44:52 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f12v = BZ (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f12 # Panels: f12v # Bifolio: bB4 = f12+f13 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 12 is missing. # # Comments: # # Cut away after binding? ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:49:07 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f13r = BG (Rene) = p023 (Stolfi) # Folio: f13 # Panels: f13r # Bifolio: bB4 = f12+f13 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,brown,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:49:45 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f13v = BH (Rene) = p024 (Stolfi) # Folio: f13 # Panels: f13v # Bifolio: bB4 = f12+f13 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 23 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:50:25 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f14r = BI (Rene) = p025 (Stolfi) # Folio: f14 # Panels: f14r # Bifolio: bB3 = f11+f14 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,red (Reeds) # Plant: 24 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:50:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f14v = BJ (Rene) = p026 (Stolfi) # Folio: f14 # Panels: f14v # Bifolio: bB3 = f11+f14 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:51:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f15r = BK (Rene) = p027 (Stolfi) # Folio: f15 # Panels: f15r # Bifolio: bB2 = f10+f15 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue (Reeds) # Plant: 26 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:51:54 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f15v = BL (Rene) = p028 (Stolfi) # Folio: f15 # Panels: f15v # Bifolio: bB2 = f10+f15 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 27 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=M $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 01:58:42 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f16r = BM (Rene) = p029 (Stolfi) # Folio: f16 # Panels: f16r # Bifolio: bB1 = f9+f16 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 28 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, spanning from bottom edge to top margin, # flush against the right margin. # # Three paragraphs (with 2.9, 4.2, and 3.7 lines) at the top, # left-justified. The first two lines of paragraph 1 # are right-justified and interrupted by the plant's flower. # # Paragraph 1 is followed by a short title, which may be just a # part of the paragrraph. # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=B $P=N $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:01:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f16v = BN (Rene) = p030 (Stolfi) # Folio: f16 # Panels: f16v # Bifolio: bB1 = f9+f16 # Quire: B (Rene) = II (Beinecke) # # Quire B, last page # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,blue (Reeds) # Plant: 29 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, occupying the right half of the page, spamming from # top to bottom edges. # # Two paragraphs (with 6.0 and 6.8 lines) at the top, # left-justified and following the plant's outline on the # right. # # There is a mark at the SE corner, not fully visible in the image. # # Comments: # # The mark at the SE corner is almost surely the quire number, "2nd" # in abbreviated Latin. ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=A $L=A $H=1 $X=U} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:32:53 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Roots with eyes" # Page: f17r = CA (Rene) = p031 (Stolfi) # Folio: f17 # Panels: f17r # Bifolio: bC1 = f17+f24 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # First page of quire. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the right margin, # spanning from the bottom edge to a little below the top # margin. # # Three paragraphs (with 2.6, 2.5, 5.5 lines) at the top, left- and # right-justified except for the last paragraph (which follows the # plant's outline on the right), extending down to mid-page. # Paragraph 3 may actually be two paragraphs (with 2.9 and 2.5 # lines). # # There is one extra line of text above the top margin (unit # f17r.H), apparently not in the same hand as the rest of the page. # The letters are smalled than normal; some of them resemble # Voynichese charactersthey, others look more like Latin. One of the # legible characters is an EVA "y" with macron; another, less # legible, could be an EVA "r". The right half of the line is almost # completely erased, and may extend beyond the normal right margin; # the left half is not quite readable. # # Comments: # # The extra line of text at the top of the page looks similar to the # hand of f116v (especially the characters shaped like "l"s). The # letters are probably Latin, or possibly Greek; the EVA-"y" with macron # would then be an abbreviation. # # The eyes in the roots seem to be the result of "enhancing" two # eye-like gaps in the roots. ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=B $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:33:08 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f17v = CB (Rene) = p032 (Stolfi) # Folio: f17 # Panels: f17v # Bifolio: bC1 = f17+f24 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 31 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=C $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:10:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f18r = CC (Rene) = p033 (Stolfi) # Folio: f18 # Panels: f18r # Bifolio: bC2 = f18+f23 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,red (Reeds) # Plant: 32 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Has two paragraphs of text. The first one is followed by # a title. The second may be followed too, but what do we know... # Line numbers increase continuously and match Landini's file. ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=D $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:10:35 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f18v = CD (Rene) = p034 (Stolfi) # Folio: f18 # Panels: f18v # Bifolio: bC2 = f18+f23 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red (Reeds) # Plant: 33 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:10:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f19r = CE (Rene) = p035 (Stolfi) # Folio: f19 # Panels: f19r # Bifolio: bC3 = f19+f22 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 34 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:10:50 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f19v = CF (Rene) = p036 (Stolfi) # Folio: f19 # Panels: f19v # Bifolio: bC3 = f19+f22 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 35 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Has two paragraphs; the second one is followed by a title. # Perhaps the first one is too. ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:11:25 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f20r = CG (Rene) = p037 (Stolfi) # Folio: f20 # Panels: f20r # Bifolio: bC4 = f20+f21 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,red (Reeds) # Plant: 36 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:11:32 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f20v = CH (Rene) = p038 (Stolfi) # Folio: f20 # Panels: f20v # Bifolio: bC4 = f20+f21 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue (Reeds) # Plant: 37 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:11:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f21r = CI (Rene) = p039 (Stolfi) # Folio: f21 # Panels: f21r # Bifolio: bC4 = f20+f21 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 38 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:11:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f21v = CJ (Rene) = p040 (Stolfi) # Folio: f21 # Panels: f21v # Bifolio: bC4 = f20+f21 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:12:06 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f22r = CK (Rene) = p041 (Stolfi) # Folio: f22 # Panels: f22r # Bifolio: bC3 = f19+f22 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,b (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:12:12 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f22v = CL (Rene) = p042 (Stolfi) # Folio: f22 # Panels: f22v # Bifolio: bC3 = f19+f22 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # Has at least a title at the bottom. # Perhaps there are more in between. ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=M $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:12:33 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f23r = CM (Rene) = p043 (Stolfi) # Folio: f23 # Panels: f23r # Bifolio: bC2 = f18+f23 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 42 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=N $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:12:45 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f23v = CN (Rene) = p044 (Stolfi) # Folio: f23 # Panels: f23v # Bifolio: bC2 = f18+f23 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,chartreuse,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=O $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:06 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f24r = CO (Rene) = p045 (Stolfi) # Folio: f24 # Panels: f24r # Bifolio: bC1 = f17+f24 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 44 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=C $P=P $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f24v = CP (Rene) = p046 (Stolfi) # Folio: f24 # Panels: f24v # Bifolio: bC1 = f17+f24 # Quire: C (Rene) = III (Beinecke) # # Quire C, last page # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 45 (Petersen) # # Description: # # There is a mark at SE corner, in thich strokes, resembling a # "39". # # Comments: # # The mark at the SE corner is almost certainly the quire number, # "3rd" in abbreviated latin. ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=A $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:33 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f25r = DA (Rene) = p047 (Stolfi) # Folio: f25 # Panels: f25r # Bifolio: bD1 = f25+f32 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,dark-red (Reeds) # Plant: 46 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=B $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:38 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f25v = DB (Rene) = p048 (Stolfi) # Folio: f25 # Panels: f25v # Bifolio: bD1 = f25+f32 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 47 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=C $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f26r = DC (Rene) = p049 (Stolfi) # Folio: f26 # Panels: f26r # Bifolio: bD2 = f26+f31 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue (Reeds) # Plant: 48 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=D $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:13:53 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f26v = DD (Rene) = p050 (Stolfi) # Folio: f26 # Panels: f26v # Bifolio: bD2 = f26+f31 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 49 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:08 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f27r = DE (Rene) = p051 (Stolfi) # Folio: f27 # Panels: f27r # Bifolio: bD3 = f27+f30 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: brown,green (Reeds) # Plant: 50,51 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f27v = DF (Rene) = p052 (Stolfi) # Folio: f27 # Panels: f27v # Bifolio: bD3 = f27+f30 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,red,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f28r = DG (Rene) = p053 (Stolfi) # Folio: f28 # Panels: f28r # Bifolio: bD4 = f28+f29 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 53 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:29 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f28v = DH (Rene) = p054 (Stolfi) # Folio: f28 # Panels: f28v # Bifolio: bD4 = f28+f29 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f29r = DI (Rene) = p055 (Stolfi) # Folio: f29 # Panels: f29r # Bifolio: bD4 = f28+f29 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:14:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f29v = DJ (Rene) = p056 (Stolfi) # Folio: f29 # Panels: f29v # Bifolio: bD4 = f28+f29 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:18:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f30r = DK (Rene) = p057 (Stolfi) # Folio: f30 # Panels: f30r # Bifolio: bD3 = f27+f30 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 57 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:18:59 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f30v = DL (Rene) = p058 (Stolfi) # Folio: f30 # Panels: f30v # Bifolio: bD3 = f27+f30 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan (Reeds) # Plant: 58 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=M $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:19:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f31r = DM (Rene) = p059 (Stolfi) # Folio: f31 # Panels: f31r # Bifolio: bD2 = f26+f31 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,red,brown,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=N $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:19:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f31v = DN (Rene) = p060 (Stolfi) # Folio: f31 # Panels: f31v # Bifolio: bD2 = f26+f31 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=O $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:19:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f32r = DO (Rene) = p061 (Stolfi) # Folio: f32 # Panels: f32r # Bifolio: bD1 = f25+f32 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 61 (Petersen) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=D $P=P $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:19:52 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f32v = DP (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f32 # Panels: f32v # Bifolio: bD1 = f25+f32 # Quire: D (Rene) = IV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 62 (Petersen) # # Description: # # There is a thick marking at the SE corner, resembling a "4" with # superscript "g". # # Comments: # # The mark at the SE corner is almost certainly the quire number # ("4th") in abbreviated Latin. ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=A $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:20:03 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f33r = EA (Rene) = p063 (Stolfi) # Folio: f33 # Panels: f33r # Bifolio: bE1 = f33+f40 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=B $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:20:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f33v = EB (Rene) = p064 (Stolfi) # Folio: f33 # Panels: f33v # Bifolio: bE1 = f33+f40 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # NYT 6May75, Krauss 30(top)?, Kahn plate, B&R p90 ; ``Sunflowers'' # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,blue (Reeds) # Plant: 64 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=C $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:20:21 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f34r = EC (Rene) = p065 (Stolfi) # Folio: f34 # Panels: f34r # Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Krauss 30(top), B&R p91; ``Sunflowers'' # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue,red-brown (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=D $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:30:12 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f34v = ED (Rene) = p066 (Stolfi) # Folio: f34 # Panels: f34v # Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 66 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:30:26 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f35r = EE (Rene) = p067 (Stolfi) # Folio: f35 # Panels: f35r # Bifolio: bE3 = f35+f38 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 67 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:30:40 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f35v = EF (Rene) = p068 (Stolfi) # Folio: f35 # Panels: f35v # Bifolio: bE3 = f35+f38 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,red (Reeds) # Plant: 68 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:30:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f36r = EG (Rene) = p069 (Stolfi) # Folio: f36 # Panels: f36r # Bifolio: bE4 = f36+f37 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:32:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f36v = EH (Rene) = p070 (Stolfi) # Folio: f36 # Panels: f36v # Bifolio: bE4 = f36+f37 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:32:32 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f37r = EI (Rene) = p071 (Stolfi) # Folio: f37 # Panels: f37r # Bifolio: bE4 = f36+f37 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 71 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:32:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f37v = EJ (Rene) = p072 (Stolfi) # Folio: f37 # Panels: f37v # Bifolio: bE4 = f36+f37 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 72 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:33:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f38r = EK (Rene) = p073 (Stolfi) # Folio: f38 # Panels: f38r # Bifolio: bE3 = f35+f38 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 73 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:33:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f38v = EL (Rene) = p074 (Stolfi) # Folio: f38 # Panels: f38v # Bifolio: bE3 = f35+f38 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=M $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:42:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f39r = EM (Rene) = p075 (Stolfi) # Folio: f39 # Panels: f39r # Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 75 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant flush against the left, right and bottom edges of the page, # filling the bottom half of the page. # # Root: a very broad tuber, like a fat pancake with flat light # upper surface and dark edge. A ring of 19 "fat mousetail" roots--- # dark, short and S-shaped---sprout from the edge; they seem # to support the "pancake" like the legs of a table. # Stem: many short straight stems sprout separately from the top surface # of the "pancake". Each stem ends with a leaf. # Branches: occasional short branches, each having a # single leaf at the tip. # Leaves: two spindle-shaped leaves fused at the base, forming a # "V" with fat arms and pointed tips. No leaf stalks. # Flowers: a single flower. # Stalk: longish. Chalyx: spindle-shaped, with small triangular # sepals. Petals: seven small scale-shaped petals. Core: small. # # There are three paragraphs of text (with 4.3, 3.4, 5.9 lines) # above the plant, flush against the top margin. Below the third one # there is a centered line with 4-5 words; it may be part of the # paragraph. The first two paragraphs span margin-to-margin; the # last one is even on the left, and extends right up to the plant's # outline on the right, even touching it. # # Comments: # # An almost identical copy of this drawing appears on f95r2. The # drawing on this page is drawn with more skill, and the flowers are # more detailed. The root is flatter, and its upper surface is # ligher. Also the flowers sprout from the side of the stem, not # from its tip as in f95r2. ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=N $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:42:32 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f39v = EN (Rene) = p076 (Stolfi) # Folio: f39 # Panels: f39v # Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,b (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=O $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:42:45 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f40r = EO (Rene) = p077 (Stolfi) # Folio: f40 # Panels: f40r # Bifolio: bE1 = f33+f40 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,chartreuse (Reeds) # Plant: 77 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=E $P=P $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:33:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f40v = EP (Rene) = p078 (Stolfi) # Folio: f40 # Panels: f40v # Bifolio: bE1 = f33+f40 # Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke) # # Quire E, last page # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red (Reeds) # Plant: 78 (Petersen) # # Description: # # There is a mark at the SE corner, resembling a "7" (uncrossed, with # upturned serif on the top stroke) with a superscript "cg". # # Comments: # # The mark at the SE corner is almost surely a quire number, a digit # with a Latin abbreviation. # # Landini's comments say "gathering mark 5". But it looks more # like a "seven" to me... ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=A $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:50:55 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f41r = FA (Rene) = p079 (Stolfi) # Folio: f41 # Panels: f41r # Bifolio: bF1 = f41+f48 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 79 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=B $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:51:21 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f41v = FB (Rene) = p080 (Stolfi) # Folio: f41 # Panels: f41v # Bifolio: bF1 = f41+f48 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,b (Reeds) # Plant: 80 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=C $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:43:14 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f42r = FC (Rene) = p081 (Stolfi) # Folio: f42 # Panels: f42r # Bifolio: bF2 = f42+f47 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 81 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=D $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:52:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f42v = FD (Rene) = p082 (Stolfi) # Folio: f42 # Panels: f42v # Bifolio: bF2 = f42+f47 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=E $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:52:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f43r = FE (Rene) = p083 (Stolfi) # Folio: f43 # Panels: f43r # Bifolio: bF3 = f43+f46 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,red,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=F $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:52:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f43v = FF (Rene) = p084 (Stolfi) # Folio: f43 # Panels: f43v # Bifolio: bF3 = f43+f46 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 85 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:52:55 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f44r = FG (Rene) = p085 (Stolfi) # Folio: f44 # Panels: f44r # Bifolio: bF4 = f44+f45 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:53:23 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f44v = FH (Rene) = p086 (Stolfi) # Folio: f44 # Panels: f44v # Bifolio: bF4 = f44+f45 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 88 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:54:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f45r = FI (Rene) = p087 (Stolfi) # Folio: f45 # Panels: f45r # Bifolio: bF4 = f44+f45 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:54:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f45v = FJ (Rene) = p088 (Stolfi) # Folio: f45 # Panels: f45v # Bifolio: bF4 = f44+f45 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 90 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=K $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:54:54 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f46r = FK (Rene) = p089 (Stolfi) # Folio: f46 # Panels: f46r # Bifolio: bF3 = f43+f46 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=L $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 19:55:09 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f46v = FL (Rene) = p090 (Stolfi) # Folio: f46 # Panels: f46v # Bifolio: bF3 = f43+f46 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue,red,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=M $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:28:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f47r = FM (Rene) = p091 (Stolfi) # Folio: f47 # Panels: f47r # Bifolio: bF2 = f42+f47 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,green,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=N $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:29:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f47v = FN (Rene) = p092 (Stolfi) # Folio: f47 # Panels: f47v # Bifolio: bF2 = f42+f47 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: b,red (Reeds) # Plant: 94 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=O $L=B $H=2} # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f48r = FO (Rene) = p093 (Stolfi) # Folio: f48 # Panels: f48r # Bifolio: bF1 = f41+f48 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 95 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=F $P=P $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:39:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f48v = FP (Rene) = p094 (Stolfi) # Folio: f48 # Panels: f48v # Bifolio: bF1 = f41+f48 # Quire: F (Rene) = VI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,tan (Reeds) # Plant: 96 (Petersen) # # Description: # # There is a marking at the SE corner, resembling a "6" # with a superscript "cg". # # Comments: # # The mark at the SE corner is almost certainly the quire number, # "6th" in abbreviated Latin. # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=A $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 18:21:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Snake roots" # Page: f49r = GA (Rene) = p095 (Stolfi) # Folio: f49 # Panels: f49r # Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p4, Harper's `potato' # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,red,green,yellow (Reeds) # Plant: 97 (Petersen) # # Description: # # A large plant, flush against the right and bottom edges, # and reaching almost to the top margin. # # Root: four dark teardrop-shaped tubers. # Stem: single, straight vertical, with dark streaks. # Branches: not visible. # Leaves: roundish, with scalloped margins. # Painted solid dark. Stalk: long and drooping. # Flowers: three open flowers and many buds, sprouting from two # sinuous, drooping branches; ome uncolored, most painted dark. # Stalk: short. Chalix: spherical, with a short trumpet # of fused sepals ending with a scalloped edge. Petals: # longish in the open flowers, resembling a diver's paddle foot with three # fingers, painted dark; folded into the chalyx in # the immature buds. Core, stamens, and pistils: not visible. # # Tunneling through the tubers are two animals that could be # snakes or earthworms: legless, with long, sinuous bodies # ending with a rounded tail. Their head resembles that of # a sea horse, and both have a row of dots along the back. # # There are three paragraphs (with 3.0, 7.6, 9.6 lines). # The first one, squeezed above the plant, is left- and # (roughly) right-justified. The other two, that lie # between 1/4 and 3/4 of the page's vertical extent, # are left-justified, and follow the plant's outline at right. # # Comments: # # The head and snout details of the snakes resemble those of the # "baby dragon" in f???. There is a resemblance also to the fishes # in the Pisces symbol (f???) and the birds in the "Garden of Eden" # page (f???). # # It is not clear how the "snakes" are related to the plant. ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=B $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 20:22:57 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f49v = GB (Rene) = p096 (Stolfi) # Folio: f49 # Panels: f49v # Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 98 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, flush against the right edge of the page, # spanning it vertically from edge t edge. # # The top 3/4 of the page are occupied by three paragraphs of text # (with 13.0, 3.5, 8.5 lines), flush against the top and left # margins. The first paragraph is even on the left margin, and # follows the plant outline on the right. The other two span # margin-to-margin and are interupted by the plant's stem. # # To the left of each text line there is a single symbol, 26 in # total, most of them being Voynich letters. Further to the left of # this column of symbols, on lines 2 thru 6 only, there are ordinary # numerals "1" thru "5". # # Comments: # # Jim Reeds [03 Mar 1998] noted that the digits in the NW corner # seem to be in the same hand as the folio numbers. ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=C $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:54:28 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f50r = GC (Rene) = p097 (Stolfi) # Folio: f50 # Panels: f50r # Bifolio: bG2 = f50+f55 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,yellow,green (Reeds) # Plant: 99 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=D $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:55:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f50v = GD (Rene) = p098 (Stolfi) # Folio: f50 # Panels: f50v # Bifolio: bG2 = f50+f55 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 100 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=E $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:54:58 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f51r = GE (Rene) = p099 (Stolfi) # Folio: f51 # Panels: f51r # Bifolio: bG3 = f51+f54 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,yellow,green,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 101 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=F $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 20:55:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f51v = GF (Rene) = p100 (Stolfi) # Folio: f51 # Panels: f51v # Bifolio: bG3 = f51+f54 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,yellow (Reeds) # Plant: 102 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=G $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:40:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f52r = GG (Rene) = p101 (Stolfi) # Folio: f52 # Panels: f52r # Bifolio: bG4 = f52+f53 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,brown,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=H $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:41:05 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f52v = GH (Rene) = p102 (Stolfi) # Folio: f52 # Panels: f52v # Bifolio: bG4 = f52+f53 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=I $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:41:24 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f53r = GI (Rene) = p103 (Stolfi) # Folio: f53 # Panels: f53r # Bifolio: bG4 = f52+f53 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,red (Reeds) # Plant: 105 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=J $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:41:40 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f53v = GJ (Rene) = p104 (Stolfi) # Folio: f53 # Panels: f53v # Bifolio: bG4 = f52+f53 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 106 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=K $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:41:59 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f54r = GK (Rene) = p105 (Stolfi) # Folio: f54 # Panels: f54r # Bifolio: bG3 = f51+f54 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,reddish (Reeds) # Plant: 107 (Petersen) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=L $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-08 22:36:09 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f54v = GL (Rene) = p106 (Stolfi) # Folio: f54 # Panels: f54v # Bifolio: bG3 = f51+f54 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # found solely on 16xx, not found in 1609 # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,red,green (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=M $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-08 22:36:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f55r = GM (Rene) = p107 (Stolfi) # Folio: f55 # Panels: f55r # Bifolio: bG2 = f50+f55 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,red,green (Reeds) # Plant: 109 (Petersen) # # Description: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=N $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:42:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f55v = GN (Rene) = p108 (Stolfi) # Folio: f55 # Panels: f55v # Bifolio: bG2 = f50+f55 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,blue,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=O $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:43:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f56r = GO (Rene) = p109 (Stolfi) # Folio: f56 # Panels: f56r # Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Kraus p45, Zimansky; # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: yellow,blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # # `fern' # ## {$I=H $Q=G $P=P $L=A $H=1} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:49:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f56v = GP (Rene) = p110 (Stolfi) # Folio: f56 # Panels: f56v # Bifolio: bG1 = f49+f56 # Quire: G (Rene) = VII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 1 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red(blotch),blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # There is a mark in the SE corner, # resembling a capital lambda with superscript "mj" # # Comments: # # The mark in the SE corner is almost surely the quire number, # "7th": the "lambda" is a "7", and the "j" in the superscript is # actualy an EVA "y" with macron, a scribal abbreviation for "-us". # ## {$I=H $Q=H $P=A $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 22:49:41 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f57r = HA (Rene) = p111 (Stolfi) # Folio: f57 # Panels: f57r # Bifolio: bH1 = f57+f66 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=C $Q=H $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:36:50 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The 4 times 17 sequence" # Page: f57v = HB (Rene) = p112 (Stolfi) # Folio: f57 # Panels: f57v # Bifolio: bH1 = f57+f66 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram. # # Eight concentric mechanically drawn circles delimit four text # rings, which are divided into 4 quadrants by straight lines in # the NE, NW, SW, and SE directions. The lines are drawn with ruler, # but do not quite meet at the center (They may be modern additions # to the copy). there is an isolated word outside the outer circle. # # At the center is a simple rosette, with 4 short and 4 long rounded # lobes, with a circle and a dot in the middle. # # Inside the inner circle there are four naked human figures, # visible from the chest up, heads towards the center. # Two are male, two female; two are seen mostly from the front # two mostly from the back; two have both arms raised, two have # only one. Here are the combinations: # # North: male, back, two arms straight in "V". # West: female, front, one arm straight at 45 degrees. # South: female, back, two arms straight in "V". # East: male, front, one arm forward then bent up, holding a ball. # # There are 8 words inside the inner circle. Four of them radiate # from the rosette, roughly along the diagonal lines. The other # four are tangential (but with straight baselines), to be read # in the clockwise direction; it is not clear whether they # label the four figures, or the spaces between them. # # Comments: # ## {$I=T $Q=H $P=C $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:38:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f58r = HC (Rene) = p113 (Stolfi) # Folio: f58 # Panels: f58r # Bifolio: bH2 = f58+f65 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: T (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: stars # Colors: yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains three long text blocks with 14.5, 9.7, 15.7 # lines, with clear gaps between them. There are hints of paragraph # breaks inside each block, but they are not evident. The three # paragraphs are left- and right-justified, except that the first # three lines are indented as if making space for an ornate capital. # # There are three stars in the left margin, with 6, 7, and 7 points, # respectively. Each star is positioned just above the corresponding # paragraph. The last two starts have a small circular core. # # Comments: # ## {$I=T $Q=H $P=D $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:40:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f58v = HD (Rene) = p114 (Stolfi) # Folio: f58 # Panels: f58v # Bifolio: bH2 = f58+f65 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: T (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: stars # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Text only: four paragraphs (with 21.0, 5.8, 4.3, and 5.7 lines, # respectively). Below the first paragraph there is a centered # title, which may be simply the last line of the paragraph. # # There is a six-pointed star with tail (perhaps a flower?) in the # top left corner, right next to the top edge, with the tail ending # on the first baseline, just to the left of the first character. # ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=I} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:48:15 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f59r = HI (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f59 # Panels: f59r # Bifolio: bH3 = f59+f64 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=J} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:47:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f59v = HJ (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f59 # Panels: f59v # Bifolio: bH3 = f59+f64 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=K} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:46:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f60r = HK (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f60 # Panels: f60r # Bifolio: bH4 = f60+f63 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=L} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:46:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f60v = HL (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f60 # Panels: f60v # Bifolio: bH4 = f60+f63 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=M} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:47:05 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f61r = HM (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f61 # Panels: f61r # Bifolio: bH5 = f61+f62 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=N} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:47:25 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f61v = HN (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f61 # Panels: f61v # Bifolio: bH5 = f61+f62 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=O} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:47:59 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f62r = HO (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f62 # Panels: f62r # Bifolio: bH5 = f61+f62 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=P} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:48:18 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f62v = HP (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f62 # Panels: f62v # Bifolio: bH5 = f61+f62 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=Q} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:48:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f63r = HQ (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f63 # Panels: f63r # Bifolio: bH4 = f60+f63 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=R} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:53:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f63v = HR (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f63 # Panels: f63v # Bifolio: bH4 = f60+f63 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=S} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:48:54 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f64r = HS (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f64 # Panels: f64r # Bifolio: bH3 = f59+f64 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=M $Q=H $P=T} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:49:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f64v = HT (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f64 # Panels: f64v # Bifolio: bH3 = f59+f64 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folios 59 thru 64 are missing. ## {$I=H $Q=H $P=E} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:49:49 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f65r = HE (Rene) = p115 (Stolfi) # Folio: f65 # Panels: f65r # Bifolio: bH2 = f58+f65 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), ??? (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: brown,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # One plant takes up most of the page, stretching out to all four # edges. # # The only text is a 3-word label, to the left of the plant, # level with the base of the stem. ## {$I=H $Q=H $P=F} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 23:31:07 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f65v = HF (Rene) = p116 (Stolfi) # Folio: f65 # Panels: f65v # Bifolio: bH2 = f58+f65 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Appears as Plate II in Newbold facing p44. # Transcribed 7 Dec 91 by Gillogly, 9 dec 91 by Reeds, 13 Dec 91 Gillogly. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), ??? (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # Plant: 115 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant with many roots, branches and flowers, stretching to all # four edges of the page. # # A little below mid-page there are two paragraphs, with 3.7 and 3.9 lines, # interrupted by the plant's stem. ## {$I=T $Q=H $P=G $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:52:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Three-column table" # Page: f66r = HG (Rene) = p117 (Stolfi) # Folio: f66 # Panels: f66r # Bifolio: bH1 = f57+f66 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh Yale Lib Gaz p352 # Roe, 3 Sept 93, transcribed from BL microfilm # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: T (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # The text is laid out in 3 columns. For each line: # # The left-most column contains either a single Voynich ``word'' or is blank. # The middle column contains a single single ``character'' or a ligature. # The right column contains a line of what appears to be normal Voynich text. # # The text on the right is laid out in paragraphs i.e. most lines are about the # same length, occasionally there is a shorter line (with blank space to the # right) followed by some vertical blank space before the next paragraph # starts. # # In the top right hand corner there is a number "66" in ordinary numerals. # # In the bottom left hand corner, there is a picture of a woman # lying down on her back (dead?). To the left of the woman are two # circles and a cylinder. Above her are four words in Voynich text. # To the far left are four words in a different hand and a different # alphabet. To me they look like: # # v # Den mv # der # # In the bottom right hand corner there is a symbol that looks like a number 2 # on its side. # # Here is a schematic layout of the text. Let # # L: left hand column # M: second column # R: right hand text # W: text above female figure # # Alignment of the three columns: # # L1 M1 R1 # # M2 R2 # # L2 M3 R3 # # M4 R4 # # L3 M5 R5 # # M6 R6 # # M7 R7 = # # # L4 M8 R8 # # M9 R9 # # L5 M10 R10 # # M11 R11 # # M12 R12 # L6 # M13 R13 = # # # M14 R14 # L7 # M15 R15 # # M16 R16 # # L8 M17 R17 = # # M18 # # L9 M19 R18 # # M20 R19 # # M21 R20 = # # # L10 M22 R21 # # M23 R22 # # L11 M24 R23 # # M25 # R24 # L12 M26 # R25 # M27 # M28 # R26 # L13 M29 # R27 # M30 # R28 # M31 # L14 R29 # M32 # R30 # M33 # L15 R31 # M34 # R32 = # # # W # # A strip of paper, about 1cm at its widest, was torn off # along the bottom edge of the page, from near the center until the # SE corner. ## {$I=H $Q=H $P=H $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-07 23:57:28 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f66v = HH (Rene) = p118 (Stolfi) # Folio: f66 # Panels: f66v # Bifolio: bH1 = f57+f66 # Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke) # # Quire H, last page. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,yellow,brown (Reeds) # Plant: 116 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant occupies the bottom 2/3 of the page. # # Roots: four thin stalks, arcing down, each ending with a tuber shaped like # a chili pepper pod. The tubers are almost horizontal, pointing outwards, # and resemble four feet wearing pointy shoes. # Stem: short and thick, dark-painted very crudely . # Branches: none. # Leaves: each leaf consists of a dense stack of parallel leaflets. # curled inwards. The distal leaflets are bigger, so that the leaf # is shaped like a truncated cone, with the narrow end down. # Very weird-looking. Alternate leaflets are dark-painted. # Stalks: about as long as the stem, slightly S-shaped. # Flowers: two, one on each side. # Stalks: medium long, thin, slightly curve, branching off # diagonally from each the leaf axilla. Chalix: olive-shaped, # with short, flaring, triangular sepals; medium-dark. # Petals: triangular, dark. Core: not visible. # # Above the plant there are three paragraphs (with 4.6, 2.8, 4.9 # lines, respectively), flush with the top, left, and right margins. # The last line is interrupted by the plant. # # There is a faint scribbling to the left of the root. It looks like # an illegible word surmounted by a large EVA "l", followed by a very # crude stick man with rectangular head and eyes, wearing two # superimposed EVA "l"s as a hat. # # The bottom edge of the page has an indentation, about 1cm deep # near the middle of the edge, extending from there to the SW corner. # # There is a mark in the SE corner, resembling "8" with superscript # "ug". # # Comments: # # The plant looks very strange and inelegant, it was very poorly # drawn. # # Since the roots barely touch the edge of this tear, without # crossing it, we can presume that the the defect was already there # when the plant was drawn.. # # The mark in the SE corner is almost surely the quire number, "8th" # in abbreviated Latin. ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 02:58:09 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f67r1 = IA (Rene) = p119 (Stolfi) # Folio: f67 # Panels: f67r1 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # Quire I, first page. # # This is the innermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # There seems to be some confusion in the page numbering in this fold-out; # it is also listed as page 120. # [1609.p119|1609.p120] # # Newbold plate III, Brumbaugh p66, both of whom call it f.67r # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: blue,red,yellow (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page is dominated by a circular diagram, surmounted by a single # paragraph of text (4 lines). # # The diagram is framed by three rings of text, delimited by # four thin circles. All three rings are broken at 11:30 # by two radial strokes and a decorated design. # # At the center of the diagram there is a cicle of small "pearls", # containing a woman's(?) face, with crossed eyes and a bored or # displeased look. The space between them is dark (hair? shadow?). # # This small circle is surrounded by elongated triangular spikes, painted # solid dark, forming a 12-pointed star. The gaps between consecutive # spikes are filled by kite-shaped regions, with the sharp corner pointing inward. # The result is another "fat" star with 12 chubby points and finely serrated outlines. # Each "kite" is split along its diagonal; the clockwise half is painted # solid dark, the other one is filled with little stars. # # The space between the "fat star" and the outer circle is divided into # 24 sectors, containing alternately a label and one or two stars. # (The "star" sectors are those aligned with the starry half-kites.) # # In the SE corner there is a mark resembling a "9" with "ng" superscript. # # Comments: # # The central face probably represents the moon. # # The mark in the SE corner is almost certainly the quire number, # "9th" in abbreviated Latin. ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-19 22:51:25 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The seven planets" # Page: f67r2 = IB (Rene) = p120 (Stolfi) # Folio: f67 # Panels: f67r2 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This is the outermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # Also listed as page 124 # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: tan,red(some_writing) (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram, defined by 7 concentric mechanically drawn # circles. # # Circles 1 and 2 (from the outside in) define a narrow band of # decoration, consisting of 24 copies of a "scroll"-like or # "resistor"-like object. Circles 3 and 4 define another narrow # empty band; same for circles 6 and 7. # # Between circles 2 and 3 there is a band of coloured (red?) text, # consisting of 12 phrases separated by wide gaps (unit "Y"). They # don't line up perfectly with inner sectors (see below), but appear # to be spaced as if the intent was there. # # Between circles 4 and 5 there is a broad band, divided into 12 # sectors by straight radial lines, unevenly spaced. Each sector # contains two or three lines of text, reading clockwise, with straight # or curved baselines (unit "C"). # # Near the bottom (innner) edge of each sector there is a round moon # with crescent shadow and human face. Seven of the moons have a # label just above (i.e. outwards of) them (unit "L"). # # This table shows the number of lines in units "C" and "L" and the # moon colours (light/medium/dark), starting from 08:30: # # O'clock 08: 09: 10: 11: 00: 01: 02: 03: 04: 05: 06: 07: (+:30) # Number #01 #02 #03 #04 #05 #06 #07 #08 #09 #10 #11 #12 # # C lines 3.5 2.0 3.0 3.0 2.5 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 # L labels -- lab -- lab -- lab lab lab lab -- -- lab # colours lt dk lt dk md dk lt lt dk dk lt dk # # Between circles 5 and 6 there is a single row of text, containing 12 # labels (unit "X"), apparently associated with the sectors and/or # moons in the band above. # # Inside circle 7 there is another ring of text, with 8 erratically spaced # labels (unit "Z"). # # At the center of the diagram there is an eight-pointed star/flower # with an "orange slice" background. The eight arms are not # particularly aligned with the 8 labels of the innermost text circle. # The star arm at 08:30 has a dotted tail extending out between two # labels. # # Below the diagram there is a normal-looking paragraph (unit "P") # with 3.0 lines. According to John Grove these are only lines in # the MS that are ruled. The center line of text is coloured (red?) # and its strokes seem to be heavier than those of the other two. # # Comments: # # It is possible that the text in all the sectors between radial # lines 10:00 and 5:00 comprises a single paragraph with three and a # half lines. The same can be said of the remaining sectors. # # Robert Firth once suggested that the seven named moons may be the # the seven Ptolemaic planets. # # Since line 2 of the paragraph is colored, each line is probably # a separate sentence. # ## {$I=C $Q=I $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 01:27:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Four constellations with faces" # Page: f67v2 = IC (Rene) = p121 (Stolfi) # Folio: f67 # Panels: f67v2 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This is the outermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Machine-translated by Roe, 6th September 1993 from transcription in # Bennett notation dated April 1990. # # This is plate XX in Newbold, and plate IV in Manly31. Newbold's # folio number scheme has this as 67r. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: green,red,yellow,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram with four smaller circular medaillons touching # it at the NE, SE, SW and NW corners. # # The main diagram is framed by a band delimited by two faint, # concentric, mechanically drawn circles, centered on the page. The # outer circle touches the vertical edges of the page. # # Between these two circles there are four "captions", North, South, # West and East, each in two short lines, reading clockwise. # # In the center of the large diagram there is an irregular square, # within which is inscribed another circle, within which is a star # with 6 or 7 arms. The space between the star and the circle is # filled with "spiral galaxy" hatching, whose "arms" bend # counterclockwise-out. # # From the square, lines radiate out in the N, S, E and W # directions. Each of these four lines is labeled and terminates # with a branching structure. # # Lines come in towards the square from the perimeter of the large # circle in the NE, NW, SE and SW direction. Each of these four lines # is labeled and terminates with a branching structure. Nested in these # structures are two suns (NW and SE) and two moons (NE and SW), all # with faces. # # The small circles in the corners contain between three and four # human faces, joined by lines. NE circle: four faces connected by a # cross, labeled. SE circle: four faces, in "L" pattern with the # second face centered on the vertical and wearing a pointy hat. SW # circle: four faces at each point of a square "U", on a coloured # background; the two on the bottom of the "U" are upside down. (John # Grove speculates that there is a fourth face hidden behind the first # one on L5). NW circle: three circular faces with one face on each # point of a reversed "4". # # The SE and NE small circles (and presumably the other two) contain # each a ``word'' of Voynich text. # # Comments: # # This is the folio Newbold claimed showed an annular eclipse. See # also John Manley's 1931 article in Speculum: ``Furthermore, I # invite the reader to examine carefully Plate IV and say whether it # bears any resemblance whatever to an annular eclipse.'' # ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 00:07:31 by stolfi # # 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) (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 skullcap. 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. 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. # ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=E} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 00:14:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Sun over Moon" # Page: f68r1 = IE (Rene) = p123 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68r1 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This is the innermost recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Krauss plate 31(top). # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: yellow(most_stars),blue(some_stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains a circular diagram surmounted by a paragraph # with 3.5 lines (unit "P"). # # The diagram consists of a faint circular outline filled with # 29 randomly placed stars, each with a label (unit "S"). # # At the top and bottom of the diagram, just inside the outline, there # are two smaller circular medallions. # # The top medallion (the Sun) sports a ring of fang-shaped rays. # Inside it is the face of a woman, with short curly hair and # crossed eyes; and three voynichese words (unit "X"). # # The bottom medallion is framed by a circular band with some text # (unit "Y"). Inside the frame is the face of a man(?), also with # crossed eyes, apparently with short hair and a "frame" beard, both # dark. # # Comments: # # The two medallions presumably represent the Sun and Moon. Compare # this diagram with the following one (f68r2), which is visible at # the right when the foldout is open. ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=F} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 01:11:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Moon over Sun" # Page: f68r2 = IF (Rene) = p124 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68r2 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This is the second-innermost recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: yellow(most_stars),blue(some_stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram centered on the page, surmounted by a paragraph # with 5.0 lines (unit"P"). The bottom line is interrupted by the # diagram. # # The diagram is framed by a large ring of 23 unlabeled stars. The # ring is divided into two arcs with 11 stars on the left, 12 on the # right. # # The starry ring is filled with 36 stars of various sizes, all bigger # than the border stars, randomly placed. Of them, 24 (perhaps 25) # have a label (unit "S"). # # At the top, within the large circle, is a smaller circle with a # human face and moon-like shadow in the middle, and a ring of # Voynich text around the circumference (unit "U"). The moon has a human face # with neutral expression. # # At the bottom, within the large circle, is a smaller circle with a # sun in the middle and a ring of Voynich text around the # circumference (unit "L"). The sun has a human face, with some hair # over the temple. # # Comments: # # The two medallions presumably represent the Sun and Moon. Compare # this diagram with the previous one (f68r1), which is visible at # the left when the foldout is open. ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=G} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 01:12:41 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The Pleiades" # Page: f68r3 = IG (Rene) = p125 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68r3 + f68r4 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This page comprises the two outermost recto panels (f68r3 and f68r4) # of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram, centerd on the page. The diagram is framed by # a band of text (unit "C1") between two faint mechanically drawn # circles, with no distinguished gap. # # At the center there is a bored-looking round face, surrounded by a # band of text (unit "C2"). # # The space between the inner and outer bands is divided into eight # sectors by radial text lines---vertical, horizontal, and at 45 # degrees (unit "R"). All lines read inward, so some are # upside-down. # # Sectors 11:00, 02:00, 05:00, and 08:00 are filled with unnamed stars. # # Sectors 10:00, 01:00, 04:00, and 07:00 contain respectively 1, 2, # 3, and 4 stars, each with a label (unit "X"). Sector 10:00 contains # also a 7-star cluster, with a single label (line "X.1"). # # A curved line ("tail") connects the cluster to the moon at the center; # it too has a label (line "X.2"). # # Comments: # # The face probably represents the Moon. It seems to be a woman. # # The seven-star cluster can only be the Pleiades. So perhaps # "doaro" means "Pleiades" in Voynichese? ## {$I=C $Q=I $P=H} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:13:51 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Spiral Nebula" # Page: f68v3 = IH (Rene) = p126 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68v4, f68v3 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This page comprises the two outermost verso panels (f68v4 and f68v3) # of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Way p140 # # Newbold XIII, XXI, XXII, who calls it f.68r. Jim Reeds calls it 68v3. # # Roe, 6th September 1993. # Machine translated from transcription in Bennett notation dated 30/03/90. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: blue(spickling),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page is dominated by a circular diagram, su surmounted by a # paragraph of text (3.5 lines). # # The diagram is framed by a ring of text, between two very faint # mechanically drawn circles. A large gap in the text, with a # decoration element, is very likely the starting point. # # At the center there is a circle framed by another ring of text, # also between two faint circles. The interior is divided into three # parts by an upside-down "T". The top quarters contain a word each; # the bottom half contains three lines of text. The circles and the # "T" are mechanically drawn. # # Surrounding the central circle is an irregular "ocean" with a dotted # texture and a meandering outline. The outline is doubled in places # in a way that suggests a sunken pond, or a shape cut out # from thick cardboard. # # Eight hand-drawn, inward-reading text bands, curved like the # "arms" of a galaxy, connect the outer frame of the diagram with # the center figure. The four arms that start at mid-quadrant merge # into the "ocean", while the other four continue over the ocean and # merge with the inner circle of text, 45 degrees counterclockwise # of their starting point on the outer circle. # # The four arms that connect to the center divide the "ocean" into # four sectors. Each sector contains five unnamed stars, except the # West sector, that has six of them. (The anomaly may have to do with # the fact that one of the six stars is right on top of the fold-out's # crease.) # # Comments: # # The outline of the "galactic bulge" seems to # represent water in other illustrations. Here the ocean's outline is # drawn with a displaced "echo", as if it were a pool, or a thick # puzzle piece. ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=I} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 01:48:08 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f68v2 = II (Rene) = p127 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68v2 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This page is the second innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Brumbaugh p41, called f.68r by him. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: blue(lozenge_star),yellow(windmill),blue(some_stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains a circular diagram, under a paragraph # with 5.0 lines (unit "P"). The last line is interrupted # by the diagram. # # The diagram is framed by a circular band of text (unit "C"), # between two concentric mechanically drawn thin circles. (An # extra-wide gap at 10:30 may be the starting point.) # # At the center there is a figure that looks pretty much like a # flower, with eight almond-shaped petals. The petals have serrated # edges, and overlap randomly. (However some pairs of petals seem to # be fused.) The petals have been painted in a dark color. # # At the very center of this "flower" there is an irregular star, # with twisted rays, in a different color. # # The "flower"'s outline ia an eight-sided star, resembling two # concentric squares rotated 45 degrees apart. From the tips # of each "petal", there sprouts a straight narrow tendril. # Each tendril soon turns into a radial text line, reading outwards # (unit "R"). Some of the text is therefore upside down. # # The eight sectors defined by these rays alternately contain a # bunch of unnamed stars, or two radial labels (unit "S"), collinear # and reading outwards, with a single star between them. Clockwise # from the division at 11:30 there are 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 1, 9, 1 stars, # i.e. 35 unlabeled ones and 4 labeled ones. The 03:00 sector (with 8 # stars) has a speckled blotch behind and between two stars. # # Comments: # # The small central flower may be the Sun. Or it may represent the # stamens/pistils of the large flower surrounding it. # # The speckles in the 03:00 sector possibly represent a more distant # star cluster. # # The radial lines should probably be read starting from 10:30, at # the gap in the outer text ring. Besides, that ray is the only one # that contains any EVA "p" (two of them). # ## {$I=A $Q=I $P=J} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 02:41:46 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f68v1 = IJ (Rene) = p128 (Stolfi) # Folio: f68 # Panels: f68v1 # Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68 # Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: blue(vanes),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains only a circular diagram, framed by two faint # mechanically drawn circles, each surrounded by a ring of text. # # The whole is surrounded by another thin circle, about 1cm further # out, that begins looking mechanically drawn but at some point # wanders off and fails to close on itself, as if the fixed leg of the # compass had skipped a bit. (However, this outermost circle may be a # modern scribble on the copy.) # # A thick radial stroke at 10:30 connects this outermost circle to the # next one, through the gap between two words of the outer text ring. # Another pair of thick radial strokes at 10:00 connects the second # and third circles, breaking the second text ring. # # At the center of the diagram is a sun, with narrow flipped # S-shaped rays and a human face (with neutral expression, straight # hair combed back at the sides, held by a narrow headband with # dots.) # # Surrounding the sun is a fat star with serrated outline, consisting # of 16 sectors shaped like narrow kites, each split radially into a # "light" (clockwise) half, with a dotted line and some small stars, # and a "dark" half, painted with a solid dark color. Clockwise from # the 10:00 point, the light half-sectors contain the following counts: # # 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 7 7 6 5 5 5 # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * # * * # # All told there are 66 stars. (But the star count of 7 in the 06:30 # sector may be an 8. # # Thin radial lines connect each point of the star to the # inner edge of the frame. The 16 sectors defined by these lines # are alternatingly filled with unnamed stars, or labeled with # a radial text line, reading outwards. Clockwise from the # 10:00 ray, the sectors contain the following counts: # # 8 7 7 8 9 9 8 7 # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * * * * # * * * * * # * * # # There are 63 stars in total. # # There is a comet-tail-like object behind one of the stars in # the 03:00 sector. # # Comments: # # It is not clear whether the "start here" strokes at 10:00-10:30 # are original, or modern guesses scribbled on the copy. If the # latter, then they seem wrong, because those word gaps are quite # ordinary and not aligned. # # Another possible starting place is at 01:15, where both rings have # aligned, extra-wide word breaks. # # On the other hand, the EVA "p" on the the 10:30 radial line suggests # that that is indeed the first line. # # The center figure is probably female. # # Note that the small and large star counts are almost the same (67 # and 63); perhaps 64 was the intended number. Note also that the # small star counts are unimodal. The big star counts would be # unimodal too if the 11:00 sector had 7 stars, or the 09:30 sector # had 8. The latter seems more likely as it would have bumped the # number of big stars to 64. In both sequences the minimum is around # 01:10 (the aligned breaks!) and the maximum around 07:00. # # The "tail" in the 03:00 sector may mean that one of the stars is a comet. # ## {$I=C $Q=J $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 03:49:20 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f69r = JA (Rene) = p129 (Stolfi) # Folio: f69 # Panels: f69r # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: green-blue(pipes),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains a circular diagram, under a single paragraph # (unit "P") with 3.9 lines. # # The diagram is bounded by a faint mechanically drawn circle. Just # inside it is a circular band of text (unit "C"), reading clockwise. # This text is divided into 16 sectors; see below for details. # # Most of the area inside the diagram is occupied by a flower-like # figure. The core of the flower is a thin mechanically drawn # circle, containing a star with six narrow, pointed arms. Each arm # has three coloured bands near the point. # # The rays of the star divide the interior of the circle into six # unequal sectors, each labeled with a Voynichese letter (unit "W"). # There is no obvious starting place. # # Surrounding the central disk is a band of text (unit "S"), with a # discernible gap at 10:00. Surrounding the text is another thin # mechanically drawn circle, slightly eccentric. # # Sprouting from the second circle are 45 thin radial lines ("flower # stalks"), extending almost all the way to the outer text band, each # of them terminating in an object that looks like a shallow conical # cup (perhaps a stylized flower, resembling a California poppy). # The "flowers" touch each other, forming a continuous ring. # # The 45 sectors defined by the flower stalks are alternatingly # "empty" and filled with 22 radial lines of text (unit "R"), # reading outwards. This leaves two adjacent empty sectors at 02:00. # The first of these two empty sectors (going clockwise) is cut by # an extra radial line that passes between the two flower cups and # extends all the way to the outer circle. The clockwise half of # this sector is is decorated with abstract patterns. # # Some of the "empty" sectors have a stripe of dark paint, displaced # to one side. There are 12 dark stripes, starting with the 3rd # sector after the decorated "marker", and then spaced # # 2,4,4,2,4,6,2,4,6,2,4 # # sectors apart (always clockwise). # # The space between the "ring of flowers" and the outer circle is # divided into sixteen sectors by another set of radial lines, thin # and wavy. These lines divide the outer band of text into sixteen # phrases, each containing a few whole words. One of these lines is # the extra radial line at 02:00, that defined the decorated band. # The other fifteen lines start at the flower ring, either between # two adjacent flowers (13 cases) or at the middle of a flower (2 # cases). These lines thus divide the "flower ring" too into # sections, which, clockwise from the "start marker" line contain # # 2, 2, 2.5, 3.5, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3.5, 3.5, 3, 3, 2, 3 # # flower cups. # # Comments: # # The dark stripes in some sectors may have been the result of the # hypothetical "Dark Painter" mistaking the spaces between the # radial lines by solid cylinders, and tried to shade them # accordingly. Unfortunately that "obvious" interpretation is # excluded when one looks closely at how the radial lines connect to # the "cups". Of course the "shadows" have made the error easier to # make. # # There is no obvious place to start reading the letters between # the star arms; but if one starts at 11:00 (the smallest sector) # the letters spell out "dolsedy"; which may be an unexpected # splitting of "dolshdy", a rather common word. # # The radial lines and the outer text probably start at the # decorated band at 02:00. On the other hand, the decorated band may # be just a filler addded to patch up a mistake (the attempt to fit # an alternating pattern into an odd number of sectors). ## {$I=C $Q=J $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 04:22:18 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f69v = JB (Rene) = p130 (Stolfi) # Folio: f69 # Panels: f69v # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains only a circular diagram, framed by four faint # circles alternating with three bands of text (unit "C"). There is # a conspicuous extra-wide break in all three bands at 10:45. There # are also a couple of 'double space'd gaps in all three rings at # about 12:00, not quite aligned, following the first few words on # each ring. # # In the middle of the diagram there is a colored disk filled with # tiny stars, with one large star at the center, whose slender rays # extend to the disk's perimeter. # # Sprouting radially from the disk are 28 cylindrical objects # ("logs"), alternatingly long and short, extending about halfway to # the outer frame. Each log has a label (unit "L"), which reads # radially inward along the log's axis. # ## {$I=C $Q=J $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 04:57:57 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f70r1 = JC (Rene) = p131 (Stolfi) # Folio: f70 # Panels: f70r1 # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost recto panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: yellow,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains only a circular diagram, framed by three faint # mechanically drawn circles and three rings of text (unit "C"). # # The first ring of text lies just inside circle #1 (the outermost # one). Only the top half of the ring is filled, and mostly with # dots and circles; the text proper is only a couple of words. # # Text rings #2 and #3 lie just outside circles #2 and #3. There are # extra-wide word gaps at about 10:30, not aligned, and smaller but # aligned gaps at 01:30. # # Inside the frame there is a textured and lightly-colored disk, # whose outline is broken by nine features with frilled edges that # resemble fat mushrooms, or squashed cauliflowers, or sea anemones # without tentacles, or... um... well.... # # Between the text frame and the "mushroom thing" there are nine # radial phrases (unit "Y"), each with two or three words, reading # inwards, starting near the frame and ending in the notch between # two consecutive "mushrooms". # # At the center of the diagram there us a star with six slender arms, # inscribed in a circle with many short and rounded fingers. # Between the star arms there are six labels (unit "X"), reading inwards. # # A faint straight radial line extends from the 10:30 arm and # bisects the corresponding mushroom (which happens to be the # smallest one). # # Just outside the many-fingered disk there is a ring of text # (unit "I"). Its starting point seems to be the radial line at 10:30. # # Comments: # # The starting point of the outer ring is probably at the aligned gaps # at 01:30, although the person who scribbled on the copy seemed # to prefer the non-aligned gaps at 10:30. # # The starting point of the outer labels may be at 01:30 too, since # that label has a "p" gallows. Another possibility is the label at # 10:30, just counterclockwise of the smalest "mushroom" (and of its # bisecting line). # # John Grove thinks that the labels were written counter-clockwise # as those that are upside down are the ones between 6:00-1:00. ## {$I=C $Q=J $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 05:35:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f70r2 = JD (Rene) = p132 (Stolfi) # Folio: f70 # Panels: f70r2, f70r3 # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outer recto panels of a six-panel fold-out. # The outermost one (f70r3) is only half as wide as a normal panel. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: astronomical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # The first panel (f70r2 proper) contains a circular diagram framed # by four rings of text (unit "C") between two faint mechanically # drawn circles. There are two faint radial strokes at 10:00, breaking the two # outer rings, and one at 09:05, breaking the two inner rings. # # The second (half-)panel contains a paragraph with 13.7 lines of text # (unit "P"), part of which spans the fold between the two panels. # # Inside the diagram's frame is an eight-pointed flower (or chubby # star), with serrated outline. A narrow channel or stem connects # the tip of each of the star arms to the frame. # # Inside the flower there is a sun, containing a ring of text (unit # "I"), and inside it a human (woman's?) face with crossed eyes and # smooth light hair. The sun has eight S-shaped rays directed along # the star's arms, interleaved with eight long spikes with a bulbous # base, each touchng the diagram's frame. # # Comments: # # Speculation is that the two inner circles are one paragraph since # they share the single line marker at 09:05, and the two outermost # are another paragraph since they share the double line marker at # 10:00. # # However those lines may be modern guesses. The aligned gaps # at 12:00 on the two outer rings and at 06:00 on the two inner rings # are equally plausible. ## {$I=Z $Q=J $P=E} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:18:35 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Pisces" # Page: f70v2 = JE (Rene) = p133 (Stolfi) # Folio: f70 # Panels: f70v2 # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outer verso panels of a six-panel fold-out. # The outermost panel is narrower than normal panels. # # Newbold calls this 70r. # # Roe, 8th September 1993 # Machine translated from a transcription in Bennett notation of 16/04/90 # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: green,blue,red(sparingly,mouths),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three concentric rings of text, each bounded by a pair of faint, # mechanically drawn circles. There is an extra circle and a band of # abstract decoration surrounding the innermost ring of text. # # In the centre are two fish, two stars, a word of Voynich text # and the word "Mars" in the Roman alphabet. # # Between the inner ring and the middle ring are ten female(?) # figures, each coming out of a horizontal cylinder. (These # cylinders look like sections of drainage pipe, with flanges at # both ends; cf. f78r.) Between the middle and the outer ring are 19 # (NOT 20) female figures, each standing inside an upright barrel or # basket. The barrels are decorated with various abstract hatching # patterns. The four figures between 11:00 and 01:00 are smaller and # more cramped than the rest. # # All figures are naked and, and all have (or may have) full breasts. # Most of the figures in the outer band have their hands hidden inside # the barrels, wich (with only a couple of exceptions) reaches up to # the waists. The figures in the inner band are bent in an unnatural # way, with most of their legs inserted into the "pipes". # # Each of the 29 figures is labelled with a ``word'' or phrase of # Voynich text. The spacing suggests the label is always placed at the # right (i.e. clockwise) of the corresponding nymph. # # Comments: # # The two fish are obviously the astrological symbol for Pisces. # Mars is French for March, Pisces is February 20th to March 20th. ## {$I=Z $Q=J $P=F} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:27:00 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Aries dark" # Page: f70v1 = JF (Rene) = p134 (Stolfi) # Folio: f70 # Panels: f70v1 # Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70 # Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost verso panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: green(touches),yellow(touches) (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram defined by six faint, mechanically drawn # concentric circles, forming three narrow bands. The two outer bands # each contain a ring of text, with no obvious starting point or # divisions. # # In the center there is an animal resembling a beardless goat, # dark-colored, nibbling at a bush, standing on a scalloped (rocky ?) ground. # below it is a non-voynich word "ab*i*l". # # In the space between the inner and middle bands there are five # nymphs, and ten more in the space between the middle and outer band. # Each nymph is standing inside an upright barrel, with a star or # flower by her head. Some stars have tails (or stems); some nymphs # are holding their stars, by a ray or by the tail, others are # pointing at them, some have their both hands on the hips. some of # the nymphs are dressed, but the nipples and body outline often show # under the dress. (Either the dresses are meant to be transparent, or # they were added later, in an attempt to mask the naked bodies.) # There is a label clockwise from each nymph. # # The ram/goat is generally well-drawn except that its front legs bend # in a strange way. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-20 00:00:34 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Aries light" # Page: f71r = KA (Rene) = p135 (Stolfi) # Folio: f71 # Panels: f71r # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: green,yellow,blue,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # A circular diagram defined by six faint mechanically drawn # concentric circles, forming three narrow bands. The two outer bands # each contain a ring of text, broken by a decorated section in each # band, at 10:00. # # In the center there is an animal resembling a beardless goat, # light-colored, nibbling at a bush, standing on a scalloped (rocky ?) # ground. below it is a non-voynich word "ab*i*l". # # In the space between the inner and middle bands there are 5 # nymphs, and 10 more in the space between the middle and outer band. # Each nymph is standing inside an upright barrel, with a star or # flower next to her head. Some stars have tails (or stems); some nymphs # are holding their stars, by a ray or by the tail, others are # pointing at them, some have their both hands on the hips. All but one of # the nymphs are heavily dressed, and none have salient breasts or visible # nipples. # # There is a label clockwise from each nymph. # # Comments # # Presumably, the "notched square" devices at 10:30 may be the "start # here" mark of the circular text bands. # # The goat is drawn better than the dark Aries (f70v1), and its legs # bend the right way, unlike those of the light Aries (f71r). The # nymphs (and the barrels), on the other and, are even worse than # those of dark Aries. # # Either the "transparent" dresses are meant to be transparent, or # they were added later, in an attempt to mask the naked bodies. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:21:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Taurus light" # Page: f71v = KB (Rene) = p136 (Stolfi) # Folio: f71 # Panels: f71v # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # Newbold calls this folio 79. # # Roe, 8th September 1993 # Machine translated from a transcription in Bennett notation of 26/04/90 # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: red(lots),green(some) (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn # circles. A wider gap in the outer ring at 10:30 may be the # starting place. # # In the centre is a horned animal feeding from a manger. Below the # bull is the word ``May'' in the Roman alphabet. # # Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are five human # figures, each standing in a barrel, waist deep, holding a star. One # is naked, four are clothed. The barrel at 00:00 is ribbed. # # Between the middle ring and the outer ring are 10 human figures, # each in a barrel, waist deep, holding a star. Two are naked, eight # are clothed. # # Most figures have visible breasts. Some have hats. All figures have # their right hand inside the barrel. # # Clockwise from each figure there is a short label. # # Comments: # # The animal at the center is probably a bull, the astrological # symbol for Taurus. Taurus is April 20th to May 20th. # # The general appearance of the page is light, in contrast to the dark Taurus, f72r1. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:26:06 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Taurus dark" # Page: f72r1 = KC (Rene) = p137 (Stolfi) # Folio: f72 # Panels: f72r1 # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: dark-red,green(little),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn # circles. There is no obvious starting place. # # In the centre is a horned animal feeding from a manger. Below the # bull is the word ``May'' in the Roman alphabet. # # Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are six human # figures, each holding a star. Five are standing in a barrel, waist # deep; a sixth one is peeking from behind the barrel at 08:30. All # have the right hand inside the barrel, except for the small one at # 08:30 (right hand behind barrel) and the one at 02:00 (right hand # resting on the barrel's edge). The figure inside the 08:30 barrel # is holding a smaller star, lower and closer to her than the other # figures. # # Between the middle ring and the outer ring are 10 human figures, # standing. The one at 00:00 is in frontal view, all others are # in 3/4 view, between frontal and facing clockwise. The one at # 02:30 has the right arm straight back and down; all the others # have the right hand on their hips. # # All the figures are naked. Most have visible breasts. Some have hats, # some have long hair. # # Clockwise from each figure there is a short label. # # Comments: # # The general appearance of the page is dark, in contrast to the # light Taurus, f71v. # # The animal at the center is probably a bull, the astrological # symbol for Taurus. Taurus is April 20th to May 20th. # # It looks as if the artist # decided to add one more figure at the last minute, and had to # improvise... # ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:25:52 by stolfi # # 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) # # 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 the word ???. # # Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are nine naked # women, 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 human figures, # 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 five # 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. # # Comments: # # The sign of Gemini, the Twins, has sometimes been represented by a # man and woman. Gemini is ??? to ???. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=E} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:23:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Cancer" # Page: f72r3 = KE (Rene) = p139 (Stolfi) # Folio: f72 # Panels: f72r3, f72r4 # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outermost recto panels of an eight-panel # fold-out. (The outermost panel is about 1/3 the width of a normal # one.) # # Beware that the scanned image is upside down. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Four concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn # circles, roughly centered on the page. The outermost circle runs # over the crease on the left side of the panel, and into the # diagram of f72r2; for that reason the text is interrupted # between 08:00 and 10:00. The middle ring of text has a # decorated square at 09:00, and the inner ring has a wider # word break at 08:55. # # In the centre there is a pair of lobster-like creatures seen from # above. The one at the top is light-colored and facing East, the # bottom one is dark and facing West. Below them is the word # ``???'' in the Roman alphabet. # # The rings of text delimit three circular bands, containing (from # inside out) 7, 11, and 13 human figures, respectively, i.e. 31 in # total. [To be described]. # # All figures seem to be naked, in 3/4 view (between frontal and # facing clockwise). Some have visible breasts, some don't. Most are # holding a star with the right hand; the left hand is generally on # the hip. # # There seems to be a label just clockwise of each figure. # # [It is not possible to be more precise, because the source image # is very poor. I cannot read most of the text, or even confirm the # number of nymphs.] # # Comments: # # Note the switch from 2 to 3 bands of figures. # # The decorated square suggests the text rings are to be read # starting at 09:00 or so. # # The two lobsters are probably a symbol for Cancer. # Cancer is May 21th to June ???. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=F} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:24:25 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Leo" # Page: f72v3 = KF (Rene) = p140 (Stolfi) # Folio: f72 # Panels: f72v4, f72v3 # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outermost verso panels of an eight-panel # fold-out. (The outermost panel is about 1/3 the width of a normal # one.) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Three concentric rings of text, deimited by six faint mechanically # drawn circles. The outer and inner rings have wider word gaps # at 08:45. (The middle ring crosses a fold at that point). # # In the centre is an animal resembling a lioness, facing west. The # animal has a very short and sparse mane, and a long tail ending in # a tuft of hair. The tail curved down, between or behind the rear # legs, then up behind body, and then forward. The right front paw # is lifted and points West. The animal has a muzzle similar to that # of the nibbling animal in f???, and is showing a longish, narrow, # pointed tongue. # # Below the lion is a non-Voynichese word, possibly "augst" in # lowercase Latin letters. There may be a dot over the first leg of # the "u". The "s" looks like an uncrossed "f" with a straight # descender. The "t" looks like an EVA "c". # # The three rings of text define two bands containing human figures # (12 in the inner band, 18 in the outer one), all naked, in 3/4 # view (between frontal and facing clockwise). Each figure holds a # star with the left hand. The right hand is generally on the hip. # # All the figures are naked. Most have visible breasts and # shoulder-long hair. # # Clockwise from each figure there is a short label. # # Comments: # # The animal at the center is probably a lion, the astrological # symbol for Leo. Leo is ??? to ???. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=G} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 07:39:41 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Virgo" # Page: f72v2 = KG (Rene) = p141 (Stolfi) # Folio: f72 # Panels: f72v2 # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # This page is the central verso panel of n eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit # three rings of text. The outer ring crosses the fold into page # f72v3, and runs under that page's diagram, so the text is # interrupted between 08:30 and 09:30. There are notable gaps on the # other two rings at about 09:30. # # The two outermost circles are not exactly concentric, and the # third one doesn't quite close on itself (at 06:30). # # Inside the inner circle there is a woman (with breasts) standing, # wearing a long pleated dress with flaring sleeves, and a hat or # hat-like hairdo. With her right hand she is holding a star, by its tail; # the left hand is empty and half-stretched forward. At her feet there # is a tuft of grass and a daisy-like flower. Above the flower # is a word in a dark, different script (possibly "septe~br" with the # tilde over the "e"). # # Between the bands of text, there are two bands of naked figures # ("nymphs"), 12 in the inner one, 18 in the outer one. Most of them # are clearly female, but some have undefined sex (no breasts but also # no genitals). The inner ring figure at 04:00 is smaller and is # standing on a tub or platform of some sort. # # Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star, some by its tail --- # except for the inner nymph at 00:30, who is just looking at the # star, and the inner nymph at 01:30, who has no star. There is # a label under each star. # # Comments: # # The gaps at 09:30 suggest the text should be read starting from there. # # The way f72v3 overlaps f72v2 indicates that they were drawn in # that order. # # Rene [27 Mar 1996] observes similarities between the zodiac # symbols in the VMs and those in a 1440 german manuscript [1]. Says # in particular that Virgo in that manuscript holds a flower and not # a star. # # Adams Douglas [28 Mar 1996] thinks the star held by the # symbol-woman is Spica, the brightest star in Virgo, usually on the # her head or a sceptre. # # References: # # [1] Manuscript Palat. Lat. 1369. Samples in [2]. # # [2] Fritz Saxl, book about astronomical and astrological images in medieval # manuscripts. ## {$I=Z $Q=K $P=H} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:25:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Libra" # Page: f72v1 = KH (Rene) = p142 (Stolfi) # Folio: f72 # Panels: f72v1 # Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72 # Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit # three rings of text. The outer ring runs right up to the binding # gutter on the right. There may be a wider word gap at 09:00 (but # the image is very poor there). A radial stroke cuts across the # middle ring at 08:30 (may be a modern scribble). # # The two circles that delimit the inner ring of text are quite # irregular. # # Inside the inner ring there is a two-plate balance scale, # slightly offset to the right. The beam is a narrow rectangular # ruler, with a darker stripe running down its middle. The pivot is # not visible, but seems to be fixed at the bottom of an upright # rectangular frame, with a handle or ring on top (partly hidden # under the innermost text ring). A narrow triangular pointer rises # from the beam's midpoint up to the top of the supporting frame. An # object resembling a sliding counterweight seems to be resting over # the beam, a little to the left of the pivot. Each end of the beam # has a thin horizontal extension, from whose tip there hangs a # hemispherical cup with thick walls, supported by three or four # straight threads or wires. # # Below the scale there is a single word in non-Voynich script, # apparently "oct~ebre" in lowercase Latin cursive (with a # tilde or macron over the "te"). # # Between the bands of text, there are two bands of naked figures # ("nymphs"), 10 in the inner one, 20 in the outer one. Most of them # are clearly female (visible breasts, long hair). All nymphs are naked, # mostly in 3/4 view (between frontal and facing clockwise). # # A hole in the vellum, less than 5mm across, covers a small segment # of the middle ring. at 03:00. The preceding word runs up to the # hole, but is apparently whole. A nymph in the inner band, at # 03:15, also has the hair squeezed against the hole. # # The outer nymph at 12:15 wears a crown, consisting of a ring of # flaring triangular points, each with a dot; and a dome with double # outline, topped by a spike or cross (too small to tell). # # Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star. # # There is a Voynichese label just clockwise of each nymph. # # Comments: # # The scale is the standard symbol for the sign of Libra. # Libra is from ??? to ???. # # The stroke at 08:30, if original, suggests that the text should be # read starting from there. # # The way f72v3 overlaps f72v2 indicates that they were drawn in # that order. # # The drawing of the balance is very accurate in all details, in # spite of the relatively crude perspective and technique. It looks # as if the author was very familiar with the instrument. I suspect # that the model may be more appropriate for a druggist than for a # grocer. # # The details of the drawings around the hole suggest that the # hole was already there when the drawing was made. ## {$I=Z $Q=L $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:27:32 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Scorpio" # Page: f73r = LA (Rene) = p143 (Stolfi) # Folio: f73 # Panels: f73r # Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74 # Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: green(center),yellow(stars),red(lips,some_mouths) (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit # three rings of text. There seem to be no distinguished break # in the text. # # Inside the inner circle is a squat animal. A dark smudge # obliterates most of the animal's body, leaving visible only the # head (roundish, with a wide mouth and two very short and broad # horns) and the tail (that curves up, forward, down, then up # again). Above the animal is a seven-pointed star with a tail that # ends in the animal's mouth. # # Below the animal is an illegible word. # # Between the rings of text, there are two bands of naked figures # ("nymphs"), 10 in the inner one and 16 in the outer one. Four # additional nymphs are standing on top of the outer ring of text. # Most of them are female (with breasts and shoulder-long hair). # # Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star. # # There is a label just clockwise of each nymph. # # Comments: # ## {$I=Z $Q=L $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:27:54 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Sagittarius" # Page: f73v = LB (Rene) = p144 (Stolfi) # Folio: f73 # Panels: f73v # Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74 # Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi) # Subject: zodiac # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # [To be checked and completed] # # Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit # three rings of text. At 09:30 there is a wider gap in the middle # ring and a radial stroke (a modern scribble on the copy?) cutting # across the outer ring. # # Inside the inner circle is a beardless human figure, apparently # smiling, walking Westward. The figure (possibly, but not # necessarily male) is wearing a hat with round rim and a long veil # or plume falling down the back, to the waist. He also wears a # shirt with ring collar and broad sleeves, closed at the wrist; a # flaring skirt, with heavy pleats, down to knee level; and boots to # mid-leg. # # The figure is holding an armed crossbow, pointing forward and down. # # Between the figure's feet is an almost illegible word, possibly # "oct" in lowercase Latin alphabet (with a "t" resembling EVA "c") # # Between the rings of text, there are two bands of naked figures # ("nymphs"), 10 in the inner one and 16 in the outer one. There # are 4 additional nymphs standing on top of the outer ring of text. # Most of them are female (with breasts and shoulder-long hair). # # Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star. # # There is a label just clockwise of each nymph. # # Comments: # ## {$I=M $Q=L $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:36:20 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f74r = LC (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f74 # Panels: f74r # Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74 # Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folio 74 is missing. ## {$I=M $Q=L $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:36:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f74v = LD (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f74 # Panels: f74v # Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74 # Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke) # # Missing in the original # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Comments: # # Folio 74 is missing. ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=A $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:42:23 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f75r = MA (Rene) = p145 (Stolfi) # Folio: f75 # Panels: f75r # Bifolio: bM1 = f75+f84 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: green,blue(some_pipes) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=B $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:50:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Ten showers" # Page: f75v = MB (Rene) = p146 (Stolfi) # Folio: f75 # Panels: f75v # Bifolio: bM1 = f75+f84 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: green,blue(in_awnings,tubes) (Reeds) # # Description: # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=C $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:36:15 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f76r = MC (Rene) = p147 (Stolfi) # Folio: f76 # Panels: f76r # Bifolio: bM2 = f76+f83 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p114 (reversed). # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # A bunch of paragraphs, with a column of letters along the left # margin. # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=D $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:37:26 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f76v = MD (Rene) = p148 (Stolfi) # Folio: f76 # Panels: f76v # Bifolio: bM2 = f76+f83 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,red(rouge_spots) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=E $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:38:00 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f77r = ME (Rene) = p149 (Stolfi) # Folio: f77 # Panels: f77r # Bifolio: bM3 = f77+f82 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,green,red (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=F $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:40:30 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Kidneys and bladder" # Page: f77v = MF (Rene) = p150 (Stolfi) # Folio: f77 # Panels: f77v # Bifolio: bM3 = f77+f82 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Kahn p865, Kraus XXIX # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # Ladies in tubes. ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=G $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:42:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f78r = MG (Rene) = p151 (Stolfi) # Folio: f78 # Panels: f78r # Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Newbold plate V, Kraus XXIX, Kraus Autobiog p220 # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: b,red,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=H $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:43:20 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f78v = MH (Rene) = p152 (Stolfi) # Folio: f78 # Panels: f78v # Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # B&R p88 # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: b,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=I $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:43:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f79r = MI (Rene) = p153 (Stolfi) # Folio: f79 # Panels: f79r # Bifolio: bM5 = f79+f80 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # B&R p88 # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: b,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=J $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:43:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Mermaid and Big Fish" # Page: f79v = MJ (Rene) = p154 (Stolfi) # Folio: f79 # Panels: f79v # Bifolio: bM5 = f79+f80 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Guy p212, Bennett p188 (he calls it f 80), Poundstone p193, Zimansky; # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: b,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=K $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:43:49 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Bathing queens" # Page: f80r = MK (Rene) = p155 (Stolfi) # Folio: f80 # Panels: f80r # Bifolio: bM5 = f79+f80 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Guy p213 (who calls it f80v), Bennett p189 # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,red,yellow (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=L $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:43:57 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f80v = ML (Rene) = p156 (Stolfi) # Folio: f80 # Panels: f80v # Bifolio: bM5 = f79+f80 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,red(one_blotch) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=M $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:44:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f81r = MM (Rene) = p157 (Stolfi) # Folio: f81 # Panels: f81r # Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p9, Harper's; ``hot tubs'' # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: green,blue(some),red (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=N $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:45:19 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f81v = MN (Rene) = p158 (Stolfi) # Folio: f81 # Panels: f81v # Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=O $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:44:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f82r = MO (Rene) = p159 (Stolfi) # Folio: f82 # Panels: f82r # Bifolio: bM3 = f77+f82 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,green,red(touch) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=P $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:44:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f82v = MP (Rene) = p160 (Stolfi) # Folio: f82 # Panels: f82v # Bifolio: bM3 = f77+f82 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p104; B's allegorical reproduction # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: red,blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=Q $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:44:47 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f83r = MQ (Rene) = p161 (Stolfi) # Folio: f83 # Panels: f83r # Bifolio: bM2 = f76+f83 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: red,blue,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=R $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:45:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f83v = MR (Rene) = p162 (Stolfi) # Folio: f83 # Panels: f83v # Bifolio: bM2 = f76+f83 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: red,green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=S $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:45:27 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Covered pool" # Page: f84r = MS (Rene) = p163 (Stolfi) # Folio: f84 # Panels: f84r # Bifolio: bM1 = f75+f84 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Newbold VI, Zimansky; Public baths # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: green,blue,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=B $Q=M $P=T $L=B $H=2} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:50:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f84v = MT (Rene) = p164 (Stolfi) # Folio: f84 # Panels: f84v # Bifolio: bM1 = f75+f84 # Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 2 (Currier) # Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # Subject: biological # Colors: blue,tan,red(some) (Reeds) # # Description: # # gathering mark 13 ## {$I=T $Q=N $P=A $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:18:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f85r1 = NA (Rene) = p165 (Stolfi) # Folio: f85 # Panels: f85r1 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This is the back side of the bottom left panel of a 12-panel fold-out. # It is visible when the fold-out is closed and the book is open # after page f84v # The left edge of panel is the binding gutter. # The right edge of the panel is the folio's free edge. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: T (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # panel mark 85 # # Comments: ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=B $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 03:56:00 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The four ages of Man" # Page: f85r2 = NB (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f85 # Panels: f85r2 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This is the verso of the top left panel of a 12-panel fold-out. # It is visible when the horizontal fold is closed but the vertical fold is open. # The left and bottom sides of the panel are folio edges. # The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease. # The right side of the panel is a vertical valley crease that # sits on top of the binding gutter. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains only a circular diagram. The outer frame consists # of a ring of text between two faint mechanically-drawn circles. The # starting point of the text is not evident. ( The whole arc between # 08:00 and 10:00 is unreadable in the source image. There is also an # extra-wide gap at 07:30, but it may be just a faded word.) # # At the center of the diagram is a sun with neutral expression # and narrow reverse-S-shaped rays. Surrounding it is a colored disk # textured with a whirlpool pattern, bent clockwise-out. # # The disk is framed by a circular band with six semicircular lobes # (one each at North and South, two each at West and East), containing # a ring of text and delimited by two narrow, decorated, cordon-like # borders. A double radial stroke, cutting across the frame at 09:00, # seems to mark the starting point of the text. The inner border of # the frame consists of two mechanically drawn circles, about a # millimeter apart, and is decorated by 10 pairs of double parentheses # (( )). The outer border is a hand drawn solid double line with a # line of dots down the middle. # # The space between the inner and outer frames is divided into unequal # sectors by four beams, placed like the arms of an "X". The beams are # narrower near the center than at the periphery. Each beam continues # past and under the outer frame, ending in a broad plume, resembling # a soft wet brush. The plume makes a sharp U-turn and passes again # behind the outer frame, while tapering down to a point. The NE plume # bends clockwise, the other three bend counterclockwise. # # Each sector between the outer and inner frames contains a paragraph # of text near the outer end (to be read clockwise), and a human # figure. The sex of the figures is indeterminate, as neither breasts # nor beards are visible. The South figure is leaning on a staff, and # looks like an old man or woman; the other three could be women or # young men, possibly children. # # The figures are partially hidden behind by the inner frame: the # South figure is hidden from the knees down by the inner frame, and # the other three are hidden from the waist down. All four figures # wear a colored, buttonless shirt, with long and narrow sleeves, # which in the South figure is seen to be a tunic or dress, ending # just above the knee. Ring collars are visible in the North and West # figures. All three figures have light hair, bushy over the ears and # cropped just below them. The East figure wears a dark # skullcap. # # The right hands of West, North, and East are hidden by the inner # frame. With the left hand, North seems to be pointing to the last # word of the text above (which sits on a line by itself); East holds # an unidentified dark object, consisting of two stacked bulbs of unequal # size, topped by a short spike (it could be a root); and West seems # to be holding a flower, shaped like a lily but dark colored. South # holds a staff with the left hand, and a chain with three huge rings # on his right. # # Comments: # # It has been conjectured that the four figures represent the Four # Ages of Man. If the diagram is to be read clockwise, like the text, # then West (who lies over the "start marker", by the way) would be # Infancy. However, East (with the skullcap) looks younger than the # other three. ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=I $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-04 20:30:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86v4 = NI (Rene) = p167 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86v4 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This page comes after page 171 in Landini's file. # # This is the back side of the top center panel of a 12-panel # fold-out. It is visible when the horizontal fold is closed but the # vertical fold is open. The bottom side of panel is the folio's edge. # The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # The page contains a circular diagram, and under it a single paragraph # of text (5 lines, the last one short and centered). # # The diagram is framed by two faint mechanically dawn circles, and # four rings of text --- one betweent the two circles, the other three # just inside the second circle. A wide gap in all four rings at 09:00 # suggests an obviosu starting point, confirmed by four radial strokes # across the first ring (that may be modern scribbles in the copy, # however). # # (There are other simultaneous gaps in all four rings at 01:00 and # 05:00, so the four rings may actually be two or three paragraphs # side by side.) # # At the center of the diagram there is an uncolored disk, bounded by # a mechanically drawn circle, containing a small moon---with a dark # crescent shadow on the left side, and a human face with neutral # expression on the right. # # Just outside this central disk there is a wide decorated band # containing four small human figures. The decoration looks like a # perspective drawing of a flat field, bent around the inner disk with # the innermost edge being closer to the observer. In the "field" # there are five parallel rows (concentric rings) of elements, shaped # like tombstones with rounded top. The "tombstones" are painted in # various colors, and some have dots, borders, or other simple # decoration. In the innermost ring, which is unobstructed, the # elements are fused together at the base. # # Between these rows of "tombstones", the field is packed with round # objects (which could be bushes, leaves, pebbles, bubbles, etc.). # # The "tombstones" in the first four rows are packed tight, and a # larger "tombstone" is inserted every 3-6 standard ones. The last row # (outermost ring) has only small tombstones, painted with alternating # colors, some distance apart (with some blades of "grass" in # between). # # The third row of tombstones is interrupted at 11:30, 02:30, 05:30, # and 08:30 by four human figures. The human figures are hidden by the # "bushes" from the waist down. The North figure is barely visible, # because of a a crease in the vellum. The West and South figures are # female (with visible breasts), and the same may be true of the other # two. They wear a white dress with ring collar and broad sleeves, # apparently tied at the wrists. Their hair is dark but not black, and # is just long enough to cover the ears. The South, West, and North # figures have both arms spread out like a "W", with hands open; East # has only the left arm up, in the same position. ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=J $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:16:53 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86v6 = NJ (Rene) = p168 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86v6 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This page is the back side of the top right panel of a 12-panel # fold-out. It is visible when the horizontal fold is closed but the # vertical fold is open. The bottom and right sides of the panel are # folio edges. The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease. # The left side of the panel is a vertical valley crease. # # This page comes after page 171 and 168 in Landini's file. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=C $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:19:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "The nine-rosette diagram" # Page: f85v2 = NC (Rene) = p169 (Stolfi) # Folio: f85 # Panels: f85v2 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This is the top left panel(?) of the main face of a 12-panel foldout. # # Panels 85v2, 86r4, 86r6 (top), and 85v1, 86r3, 86r5 (bottom) # comprise the main face of a 12-panel fold-out. # This is the only face that can be entirely seen when all creases are unfolded. # The fold-out is bound at the vertical crease between panels 85v1 and 86r3. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # This face of the fold-out contains the nine-rosette diagram. # # Comments: # ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=E $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:20:06 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86r4 = NE (Rene) = p170 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86r4 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Continuation of panel f85v2. # # Comments: # # Shouldn't have got a p-number, but now it is too late... ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=G $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:20:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86r6 = NG (Rene) = p171 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86r6 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Continuation of panel f85v2. # # Comments: # # It shouldn't have got a p-number, but now it is too late... ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=D $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:19:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f85v1 = ND (Rene) = p172 (Stolfi) # Folio: f85 # Panels: f85v1 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This is the bottom left panel of the main side of the 12-panel fold-out # It is visible when the fold-out is completely open and hiding the book. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=F $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:19:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86r3 = NF (Rene) = p173 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86r3 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Continuation of panel f85v2. # # Comments: # # It shouldn't have got a p-number, but now it is too late... ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=H $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:22:05 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86r5 = NH (Rene) = p174 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86r5 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Continuation of panel f85v2. # # Comments: # # Shouldn't have got a p-number, but now it is too late... ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=K $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:17:57 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f86v5 = NK (Rene) = p175 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86v5 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # This is the back side of the bottom right panel of a 12-panel fold-out. # The left and bottom sides of the panel are folio edges. # The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease. # The right side of the panel is a vertical ridge crease. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # folio mark 86 # # Comments: # # ## {$I=C $Q=N $P=L $L=B $H=3} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:21:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "T-O Map and # Page: f86v3 = NL (Rene) = p176 (Stolfi) # Folio: f86 # Panels: f86v3 # Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86 # Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke) # # Newbold plate VII, calls it f86v # SciAm # Brumbaugh p54, calls it f85r # Same as or includes page 174? # # This is the back side of the bottom center panel of a 12-panel fold-out. # The bottom side of the panel is a folio edge. # The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease. # The left side of the panel is a vertical ridge crease. # The right side of the panel is the binding gutter. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 3 (Currier) # Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi) # Subject: cosmological # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Gathering mark 14. # # Text and drawing take up most of the page, right up to the # edges, except for some white space left in the middle. # # Four tapering, densely decorated "biological" structures # grow from the four corners of the page towards the center. # # Between these structures there are four paragraphs of normal-looking text. # right next to the respective edge, to be read clockwise. # In the rectangular area bounded by them, there are two more # paragraphs, interrupted by part of the Northwest structure. # # At the very center of the page, below the two extra paragraphs, there is # a mechanically drawn "T-O map"---a circle cut into three sectors # by a diameter (from 09:30 to 03:30) and a perpendicular radius (at 00:30). # # At the left of the T-O map, and partly over it, there is a faint # irregular (pencil?) scribble, mostly illegible, resembling a young # child's scrawl. With some imagination, the first row can be read as # two EVA (larger than normal), a latin "n" with acute accent, and # a latin "F"; below them is an EVA , with very dark and # lighter plume. But none of these readings can be considered # significant. # # In the structure descriptions that follow, "up" means towards # the center of the page, "down" means towards its corner, # "left" is clockwise and "right" is counter-clockwise. # # The Northeast structure looks like a chalyx with thick stem, covered # with rounded, upward-pointing scales (or close-packed leaves). From # its hollow there comes forth a converging bundle of lines, like a # strong water jet (or a bundle of stalks). Halfway though the "jet" # but in front of it there is a bird with outspread wings. The "jet" # ends bruptly after a short distance, to be replaced by a dotted band # (dust? droplets? seeds?). # # The Southeast structure has the shape of a light bulb, with the # narrow end pointing up . The base (wider end) is wrapped in a # leaf-like chalyx. The bulb is decorated with several bands of knobs, # hatchings, and upwards-growing scales. The narrow end (nearest to # the center of the page) ends in a hole with dotted lip. Coming out # from the hole we see the head of another bird, with its ouspread # wings partly visible, and three curved "stalks" carrying three # corncob-like objects. # # The Southwest structure has a base that looks like a flattened # flower, whose petals are made of thick riveted metal plate. On top # of that "flower" there are three similar "stages", each smaller than # the previous one. Each "stage" looks like a ribbed stalk, short and # broad, ending with a multilobed sleeve which holds a heap of round # objects with dots at their centers. From the third stage there grows # a short "jet" (or a fourth ribbed stalk) that opens out into a # funnel or corolla with serrated borders. The right half of this # funnel is dotted. # # The Northwest structure looks like a wide and short cylindrical base # with a band of scales or flaps around its top part, pointing down. # On top of this base is a short conical dome covered with scales or # leaves. Each scale has a dot. From the very tip of the dome there # sprouts a divergent bundle of lines that ends with a cloud of dots, # like a water jet. # # Behind the Northwest structure there is a human figure with light # long hair, probably a woman. Only her head and hand are visible, # just to the right of the "water jet". # # Behind the Southwest structure there is another human figure with # short dark hair, probably a man. Only his right arm, part of his # breast, and half of his face are visible, on the left side of the # structure. # # The man's right hand seems to be holding a short tube, pointed # towards the woman. Issuing from it is a short jet of dots that ends # abruptly after a couple of feet. (The man may also be throwing # things at the woman, and the "tube" could then be the motion traces.) # The woman seems to be waving at the man. # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=A $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:22:43 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f87r = OA (Rene) = p177 (Stolfi) # Folio: f87 # Panels: f87r # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: tan,green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # Faint scribbles? ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=B $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:23:37 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f87v = OB (Rene) = p178 (Stolfi) # Folio: f87 # Panels: f87v # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=C $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:25:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f88r = OC (Rene) = p179 (Stolfi) # Folio: f88 # Panels: f88r # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # Washington Post, 5 Aug 62 (Sunday) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,green,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # 3 rows of veggies that seem to be named, with paragraphs under # each... See Reeds, 14 Dec 91 ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=D $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:26:14 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f88v = OD (Rene) = p180 (Stolfi) # Folio: f88 # Panels: f88v # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,green,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three rows of recipes with two paras between them ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=E $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:27:29 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f89r1 = OE (Rene) = p181 (Stolfi) # Folio: f89 # Panels: f89r1 # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This is the innermost recto panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # continues recipe pages. 3 recipes, 3 text paras ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=F $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:36:24 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f89r2 = OF (Rene) = p182 (Stolfi) # Folio: f89 # Panels: f89r2, f89r3 # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This page comprises the two outermost recto panels (f89r2 and # f89r3) of a six-panel fold-out. Panel f89r3 is half-width The # paragraph lines span both panels, across the fold. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # This page contains 4 sets of plants separated by 3 paragraphs. ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=G $L=A} # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f89v2 = OG (Rene) = p183 (Stolfi) # Folio: f89 # Panels: f89v3, f89v2 # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This page comprises the two outermost verso panels (f89v3 and # f89v2) of a six-panel fold-out. Panel f89v3 has half-width. The # paragraph lines span both panels, across the fold. # # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # This page contains 3 rows of veggies that seem to be named, with # paragraphs under each. ## {$I=P $Q=O $P=H $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:32:45 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f89v1 = OH (Rene) = p184 (Stolfi) # Folio: f89 # Panels: f89v1 # Bifolio: bO2 = f88+f89 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This page is contained in the innermost verso panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: blue,green,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # Two rows of veggies, top and bottom of page, 2 paras in between. ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=I $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:33:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f90r1 = OI (Rene) = p185 (Stolfi) # Folio: f90 # Panels: f90r1 # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This is the innermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green,brown (Reeds) # # Description: # # Nice page. large plant. one para. clear ink. wish all pages were # as clear as this one! plant drawn first, text after. ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=J $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:36:06 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f90r2 = OJ (Rene) = p186 (Stolfi) # Folio: f90 # Panels: f90r2 # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This is the outermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # another plant page. again, plant drawn first. a tuber. note nodular roots. ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=K $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:35:59 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f90v2 = OK (Rene) = p187 (Stolfi) # Folio: f90 # Panels: f90v2 # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This is the outermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,blue(touch) (Reeds) # # Description: # # another large plant page ## {$I=H $Q=O $P=L $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:37:26 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Lion root" # Page: f90v1 = OL (Rene) = p188 (Stolfi) # Folio: f90 # Panels: f90v1 # Bifolio: bO1 = f87+f90 # Quire: O (Rene) = XV (Beinecke) # # This is the innermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # gathering mark 15 ## {$I=M $Q=P $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:40:35 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f91r = PA (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f91 # Panels: f91r # Bifolio: bP1 = f91+f92 # Quire: P (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Folio 91 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=P $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:56:52 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f91v = PB (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f91 # Panels: f91v # Bifolio: bP1 = f91+f92 # Quire: P (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # # Folio 91 is missing # ## {$I=M $Q=P $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:54:55 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f92r = PC (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f92 # Panels: f92r # Bifolio: bP1 = f91+f92 # Quire: P (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 92 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=P $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:55:44 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f92v = PD (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f92 # Panels: f92v # Bifolio: bP1 = f91+f92 # Quire: P (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 92 is missing ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=A $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:47:33 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Sunflower" # Page: f93r = QA (Rene) = p189 (Stolfi) # Folio: f93 # Panels: f93r # Bifolio: bQ1 = f93+f96 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p80; O'Neill's ``American Sunflower'' # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=B $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:47:50 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f93v = QB (Rene) = p190 (Stolfi) # Folio: f93 # Panels: f93v # Bifolio: bQ1 = f93+f96 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=C $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:47:58 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f94r = QC (Rene) = p191 (Stolfi) # Folio: f94 # Panels: f94r # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=D $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:48:10 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f94v = QD (Rene) = p192 (Stolfi) # Folio: f94 # Panels: f94v # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=E $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:48:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f95r1 = QE (Rene) = p193 (Stolfi) # Folio: f95 # Panels: f95r1 # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: blue,green (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=F $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:51:14 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f95r2 = QF (Rene) = p194 (Stolfi) # Folio: f95 # Panels: f95r2 # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # This page is the outermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attention: the RZCD image may be wrong. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: red,brown (Reeds) # # Root: a very broad tuber, like a fat pancake with a mostly light # upper surface and dark edge. The "pancake" is slightly bent with # left and right edges higher than the middle. A ring of 15 "fat # mousetail" roots --- dark, short and S-shaped --- sprout from the # edge; they seem to support the "pancake" like the legs of a # table. The three ones in front are much thicker than the 12 in the # back. (Note that if the thick roots were split in two, there will # be 18 roots, close to the 19 of f39r.) # Stem: many short straight stems sprout separately from the top surface # of the "pancake". Each stem ends with a leaf and flower; the # longer ones have additional leaves attached to them. # Branches: occasional short branches, each having a # single leaf and flower at the tip. # Leaves: two spindle-shaped leaves fused at the base, forming a # "V" with fat arms and pointed tips. No leaf stalks. # Flowers: one per branch. # Stalk: longish. Chalyx: spindle-shaped, with smooth rim. Petals # and core: none. # # An almost identical copy of this drawing appears on f39r. This one # is drawn with less skill and/or care. The root shape is more # irregular, its top surface is medium dark, and the flowers have only # a flat circle in place of the corolla and core. # Also the flowers sprout from the tip of each stem or branch. ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=G $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:48:35 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f95v2 = QG (Rene) = p195 (Stolfi) # Folio: f95 # Panels: f95v2 # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # This page is the outermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attention: the RZCD image may be wrong. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: brown,green,blue (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=H $L=B $H=5} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:48:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f95v1 = QH (Rene) = p196 (Stolfi) # Folio: f95 # Panels: f95v1 # Bifolio: bQ2 = f94+f95 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: 5 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=I $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:52:13 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f96r = QI (Rene) = p197 (Stolfi) # Folio: f96 # Panels: f96r # Bifolio: bQ1 = f93+f96 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan (Reeds) # # Roots: dark with many spindle-like tubers, resembling yam or manioc. # Stem: single, upright with round swelling just above ground. # Leaves: stellated, with 10-13 fingers, distal ones somewhat longer. # Petiol: attached to leaf palm between two shortest fingers. # Leaf arrangement: basically paired. # Flowers: one big flower or inflorescence at the top, shaped like an # oversize cashew nut. The narrower end is lighter and attached to # the plant, and covered by tight bracts resembling those of an # eggplant. The wider end is crowned by a light patch surrounded by # short, narrow, curved petals, and filled with concentric dotted # circles---possibly a cluster of small mature flowers. ## {$I=H $Q=Q $P=J $L=A $H=4} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:52:58 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f96v = QJ (Rene) = p198 (Stolfi) # Folio: f96 # Panels: f96v # Bifolio: bQ1 = f93+f96 # Quire: Q (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4 (Currier) # Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # Subject: herbal # Colors: green,tan,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # gathering mark 17 ## {$I=M $Q=R $P=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:57:29 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f97r = RA (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f97 # Panels: f97r # Bifolio: bR1 = f97+f98 # Quire: R (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 97 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=R $P=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:57:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f97v = RB (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f97 # Panels: f97v # Bifolio: bR1 = f97+f98 # Quire: R (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 97 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=R $P=C} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 04:58:20 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f98r = RC (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f98 # Panels: f98r # Bifolio: bR1 = f97+f98 # Quire: R (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 98 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=R $P=D} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:54:12 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f98v = RD (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f98 # Panels: f98v # Bifolio: bR1 = f97+f98 # Quire: R (Rene) = XVI (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 98 is missing ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=A $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:01:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f99r = SA (Rene) = p199 (Stolfi) # Folio: f99 # Panels: f99r # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # Kraus plate XXXI # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,tan,green (Reeds) # # Description: ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=B $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:00:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f99v = SB (Rene) = p200 (Stolfi) # Folio: f99 # Panels: f99v # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # B&R p88; faces ``capsicum'' # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: phamaceutical # Colors: red,tan,green,blue(some) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=C $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:03:50 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f100r = SC (Rene) = p201 (Stolfi) # Folio: f100 # Panels: f100r # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # B&R p88, Brum Spec. p547, Brum p96, Way p138 # Brumbaugh p86 # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,green,b (Reeds) # # Description: # # two rows of plants, with (mostly) one word captions # 4 line text paragraph # one row of plants with one word captions in staggerd order # 6 line text paragraph ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=D $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:05:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f100v = SD (Rene) = p202 (Stolfi) # Folio: f100 # Panels: f100v # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # Brumbaugh p86; ``medicinal herbs'' # Roe, 6th September 1993 # Transcribed from Brumbaugh, p. 86 # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: 4? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=E $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:06:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f101r1 = SE (Rene) = p203 (Stolfi) # Folio: f101 # Panels: f101r1, f101r2 # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # 101r1 and 101r2 form a single "logical" page # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: green,tan,blue,red(some) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=F} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:07:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f101r2 = SF (Rene) = p204 (Stolfi) # Folio: f101 # Panels: f101r2 # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Continuation of panel 101r1 # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=G $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:08:11 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f101v2 = SG (Rene) = p205 (Stolfi) # Folio: f101 # Panels: f101v2 # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,b,tan,red (Reeds) # # Description: # # Two blocks of text and three rows of plants: # # [1,1]..[1,7] top of page; leaves, "cube root" # [2,1]..[2,7] just below first row of plants. # [3,1]..[3,5] between the two text blocks. # # There are also two containers (labeled) crammed into the left # margin; they look as if they were added as an afterthought. # # "Fair copies" of some of these drawings are found elsewhere: # # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=H $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:09:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f101v1 = SH (Rene) = p206 (Stolfi) # Folio: f101 # Panels: f101v1 # Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # From Brumbaugh p86: ``medicinal herbs'' # Labeled f100v in Brumbaugh. # a very poor copy, possibly several letters lost all down left margin # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # top 2/3 of page: 3 rows of plants with 1 word captions on top 2 rows # bottom of page: # 3 line paragraph, top 2 lines have 2 gaps # 7 line paragraph, 3d line of which is short ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=I $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:10:39 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f102r1 = SI (Rene) = p207 (Stolfi) # Folio: f102 # Panels: f102r1 # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost recto panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: red,green,blue,tan (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three paragraphs of text with three rows of plants: # # [1,1] above the text; # [2,1] beween paragraphs 1 and 2; # [3,1]..[3,2] below the text. # # Plant [1,1] is labeled. # # There are also three containers (unlabeled?) crammed into the left # margin; they look as if they were added as an afterthought. # # "Fair copies" of some of these drawings are found elsewhere: # # f102r1[3,1] = ... (herbal). # f102r1[3,2] = f1v (herbal). ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=J $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:13:15 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f102r2 = SJ (Rene) = p208 (Stolfi) # Folio: f102 # Panels: f102r2, f102r3 # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outermost recto panels (f102r2, f102r3) # of a six-panel fold-out. Panel f102r3 is half-width. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Three paragraphs and three rows of plants and animals: # # [1,1]..[1,4] above and right of parag 1; two plants, frog, locust(?). # [2,1]..[2,5] between pagas 1 and 2; five roots, some with leaves. # [3,1]..[3,2] two roots, labeled. # # There are also three containers (unlabeled?) crammed into the left # margin; they look as if they were added as an afterthought. # # "Fair copies" of some of these drawings are found elsewhere: # # f102r2[1,1] = ... (herbal). # f102r2[1,2] = ... (herbal). # f102r2[3,1] = ... (herbal). # f102r2[3,2] = ... (herbal). ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=K $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:14:36 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f102v2 = SK (Rene) = p209 (Stolfi) # Folio: f102 # Panels: f102v3, f102v2 # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # This page spans the two outermost verso panels (f102v3, f102v2) of # a six-panel fold-out. Panel f102v3 is half-width. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=P $Q=S $P=L $L=A} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:15:12 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f102v1 = SL (Rene) = p210 (Stolfi) # Folio: f102 # Panels: f102v1 # Bifolio: bS1 = f99+f102 # Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke) # # This page is the innermost verso panel of a six-panel fold-out. # # Attributes: # # Language: A (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi) # Subject: pharmaceutical # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Two blocks of text and and two rows of plants: # # [1,1]..[1,5] above parag 1; roots and leaves. # [2,1]..[2,3] between pagas 1 and 2; roots and leaves. # # There are also two containers (unlabeled?) crammed into the left # margin; they look as if they were added as an afterthought. # # "Fair copies" of some of these drawings are found elsewhere: # # f102v1[2,2] = ... (herbal). # # gathering number 19 ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=A $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:16:56 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f103r = TA (Rene) = p211 (Stolfi) # Folio: f103 # Panels: f103r # Bifolio: bT1 = f103+f116 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # gathering mark 20 ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=B $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:18:16 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f103v = TB (Rene) = p212 (Stolfi) # Folio: f103 # Panels: f103v # Bifolio: bT1 = f103+f116 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=C $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:19:01 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f104r = TC (Rene) = p213 (Stolfi) # Folio: f104 # Panels: f104r # Bifolio: bT2 = f104+f115 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=D $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:19:21 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f104v = TD (Rene) = p214 (Stolfi) # Folio: f104 # Panels: f104v # Bifolio: bT2 = f104+f115 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=E $L=B $H=Y} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:19:51 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f105r = TE (Rene) = p215 (Stolfi) # Folio: f105 # Panels: f105r # Bifolio: bT3 = f105+f114 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: Y (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=F $L=B $H=Y} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:20:12 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f105v = TF (Rene) = p216 (Stolfi) # Folio: f105 # Panels: f105v # Bifolio: bT3 = f105+f114 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: Y (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=G $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:20:54 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f106r = TG (Rene) = p217 (Stolfi) # Folio: f106 # Panels: f106r # Bifolio: bT4 = f106+f113 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Transcribed by Tiltman # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=H $L=B $H=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:21:15 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f106v = TH (Rene) = p218 (Stolfi) # Folio: f106 # Panels: f106v # Bifolio: bT4 = f106+f113 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: X (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=I $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:58:59 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f107r = TI (Rene) = p219 (Stolfi) # Folio: f107 # Panels: f107r # Bifolio: bT5 = f107+f112 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=J $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:22:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f107v = TJ (Rene) = p220 (Stolfi) # Folio: f107 # Panels: f107v # Bifolio: bT5 = f107+f112 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=K $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:22:55 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f108r = TK (Rene) = p221 (Stolfi) # Folio: f108 # Panels: f108r # Bifolio: bT6 = f108+f111 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=L $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 05:23:22 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f108v = TL (Rene) = p222 (Stolfi) # Folio: f108 # Panels: f108v # Bifolio: bT6 = f108+f111 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (text only) # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # ## {$I=M $Q=T $P=W} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:54:21 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f109r = TW (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f109 # Panels: f109r # Bifolio: bT7 = f109+f110 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 109 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=T $P=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:54:29 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f109v = TX (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f109 # Panels: f109v # Bifolio: bT7 = f109+f110 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 109 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=T $P=Y} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:54:38 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f110r = TY (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f110 # Panels: f110r # Bifolio: bT7 = f109+f110 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Subject: unknown (missing) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # Folio 109 is missing ## {$I=M $Q=T $P=Z} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 03:54:47 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Missing" # Page: f110v = TZ (Rene) = p??? (Stolfi) # Folio: f110 # Panels: f110v # Bifolio: bT7 = f109+f110 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: M (Rene), unk (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=M $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:52:08 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f111r = TM (Rene) = p223 (Stolfi) # Folio: f111 # Panels: f111r # Bifolio: bT6 = f108+f111 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=N $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:51:53 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f111v = TN (Rene) = p224 (Stolfi) # Folio: f111 # Panels: f111v # Bifolio: bT6 = f108+f111 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=O $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:51:26 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f112r = TO (Rene) = p225 (Stolfi) # Folio: f112 # Panels: f112r # Bifolio: bT5 = f107+f112 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=P $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:51:17 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f112v = TP (Rene) = p226 (Stolfi) # Folio: f112 # Panels: f112v # Bifolio: bT5 = f107+f112 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # lost synch from line 36, rearranged by hand and renumberer by G. Landini 1996. # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=Q $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:51:07 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f113r = TQ (Rene) = p227 (Stolfi) # Folio: f113 # Panels: f113r # Bifolio: bT4 = f106+f113 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=R $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 07:50:55 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f113v = TR (Rene) = p228 (Stolfi) # Folio: f113 # Panels: f113v # Bifolio: bT4 = f106+f113 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=S $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:51:45 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f114r = TS (Rene) = p229 (Stolfi) # Folio: f114 # Panels: f114r # Bifolio: bT3 = f105+f114 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # variant readings based on [1609|1613] # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # short paragraphs marked with stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=T $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:51:40 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f114v = TT (Rene) = p230 (Stolfi) # Folio: f114 # Panels: f114v # Bifolio: bT3 = f105+f114 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=U $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:52:24 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f115r = TU (Rene) = p231 (Stolfi) # Folio: f115 # Panels: f115r # Bifolio: bT2 = f104+f115 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=V $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:52:48 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f115v = TV (Rene) = p232 (Stolfi) # Folio: f115 # Panels: f115v # Bifolio: bT2 = f104+f115 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=W $L=B} # Last edited on 1998-10-10 02:53:02 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: ??? # Page: f116r = TW (Rene) = p233 (Stolfi) # Folio: f116 # Panels: f116r # Bifolio: bT1 = f103+f116 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: B (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), str (Stolfi) # text only # stars # Colors: red(stars),yellow(stars) (Reeds) # # Description: # # # Comments: # ## {$I=S $Q=T $P=X} # Last edited on 1998-10-09 08:06:18 by stolfi # # Identification: # # Title: "Last page" # Page: f116v = TX (Rene) = p234 (Stolfi) # Folio: f116 # Panels: f116v # Bifolio: bT1 = f103+f116 # Quire: T (Rene) = XVIII (Beinecke) # # Attributes: # # Language: ? (Currier) # Hand: ? (Currier) # Subsets: S (Rene), xxx (Stolfi) # Colors: ??? (Reeds) # # Description: # # This page is blank except for three lines of text at the top. The # script is not very clear and seems to be intermediate between # ordinary (Latin) alphabet and the VMs script. The third line # begins with two common Voynichese words. # # Comments: # # Some of the letters seem purposefully distorted to resemble VMs # letters. # # It was conjectured that it could be an anagram, given that it resembles # a "Scrabble end-game". Unfortunately anagrams of that size are # practically unsolvable without a clue. # # Common opinion is that the sentences are scribblings by a would-be # decipherer. # # Newbold [1921] reads the first line, rather arbitrarily, as "michiton # oladabas multos te tccr cerc portas" (and ignores the other two). # After many arbitrary manipulations he gets a "cipher key" out of it. # # Brumbaugh reads it as "(...)con olada ba", interprets "con...ba" # as an anagram of "bacon", and turns "olada" into 'rodgd' by adding # 3 to each letter; he then says "rodgd" means "roger". (But he # concludes that this evidence was planted by Dee/Kelly). # # Jim Reeds [15 Apr 94] quotes E. Panofski who reads the second line as # "so nim geismi[l]ch o", meaning, "... take goats milk, or..." # # Jacques Guy [] mentions the handwriting resembles that of a 1460 # German manuscript in Latin reproduced in [1, p.78]. In that # sample, there are letters that look like Voynich 8, but they stand # for "d" not "s". Final "s" is written like the modern "es-zet". # The word that Newbold and others read "valst" "valsch" is actually # "valde" ("strongly, very") in that manuscript. # # Rene again [27 Mar 1996] confirms similarity of f116v with another # 1440 German manuscript in German [2]. # # Rene Zandbergen [07 Feb 96], looking at D'Imperio's photocopy, # thinks that there might be at least one (invisible) letter before # "michiton". # # Rene [13 Mar 1996] noted that the text begins with "mich" # and ends with "nich", suggesting it was written by "MICHael voyNICH". # # Rene [5 Feb 1998] notes that some Voynichese words are similar to # "olabdabas", e.g. the NE corner of f67v2. # # References: # # [1] Joyce Whalley "The Art of Calligraphy -- Western Europe and America" # Bloomsbury Books, London 1980 # # [2] Manuscript Palat. Lat. 1369. Cited in [3]. # # [3] Fritz Saxl, book about astronomical and astrological images in medieval # manuscripts. #