#
# 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.
#
#   Color reproduction in Frank Smythe's book [1].
#
# 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 (unit µ{P}) with 2.6, 2.5, 5.5 lines, at the top
#   of the page, 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 µ{H}),
#   apparently not in the same hand as the rest of the page. Rene
#   reports [04 Apr 1999] that the extra line is in brown, too.
#
#   The leaves, stems, and chalices were painted with semi-transparent
#   green watercolor. The corollas were painted very dark blue on the
#   outside, and left unpainted on the inside, except for some thin
#   blue sreaks. The root may have been painted with very faint
#   brownish yellow. Nested among the root mass, the outlines and
#   pupils of two eyes were painted with opaque reddish-brown
#   watercolor. (It is not possible to say whether the eyes are also
#   drawn in ink.)
#
#   The folio number '17' is darker than the text, which is lighter
#   than usual.
#
# 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 may well be a later "enhancement" of two
#   eye-like gaps in the roots.
#
# 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 03:16:50 by stolfi