# # 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 # # Color reproduction in Frank Smythe's book [1]. # # Attributes: # # * Language: A (Currier) # * Hand: 1 (Currier) # * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi) # * Subject: herbal # * Colors: red,blue (Reeds), bordeaux(4_times),brown(root),blue(flower),yellow(fl.centre) (Rene) # * Plant: 29 (Petersen) # # Description: # # One plant, occupying the right half of the page, spanning from # top edge to bottom edge. # # Two paragraphs (unit µ{P}) with 6.0 and 6.8 lines at the top of # the page, left-justified and following the plant's outline on the # right. # # There is a mark at the SE corner, looking like "29" with # a descending "9". Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that it is # barely darker than the text. # # The leaves of the plant are painted with strong red tempera around # the edges, leaving a round unpainted area in the middle. The # flower is painted with watercolor in varying shades of grayish # blue-green; the top petal has a more vivid color and a "dry brush" # texture. A spindle-shaped lane down the middle of each petal is # left unpainted. The flower's core is painted with transparent # light golden yellow, the surrounding ring being left unpainted. # The root is painted with ocher watercolor. The paint seems to # have been applied with moderate care. # # Comments: # # The peculiar color of the leaves and flowers may be due to # the painter mistaking one for the other, on account of their # shapes. # # The mark at the SE corner is almost surely the quire number, "2nd" # in abbreviated Latin. # # References: # # [1] Smythe, Frank. "A Script Full of Secrets" and "The Uncrackable # Code" in "Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time: The Unexplained", pp. # 3062-3069. H. S. Stuttman, Inc., Westport, Connecticut, USA. # Copyright 1992 by Orbis Publishing, Inc. [Originally published in # "The Unexplained" in the UK.] # # Last edited on 1999-12-12 06:46:09 by stolfi