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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Aries light"
#   * Page: f71r = KA (Rene) = p135 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f71
#   * Panels: f71r
#   * Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
#   * Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
#
#   D'Imperio figure 10, page 88 (center).
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: ? (Currier)
#   * Hand: ? (Currier)
#   * Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: zodiac
#   * Colors: green,yellow,blue,red (Reeds), green(floor,bush),uncolored(goat),white(dress_inner_08:00),green(dress_inner_05:30,outer_02:00,outer_06:00),brown(other_dresses),greens+blues(tubs) (Rene)
#
# Description:
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#   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,
#   uncolored, nibbling at a bush, standing on a scalloped (rocky ?)
#   ground, painted green. 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.  
#
#   Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that the barrels are painted with
#   greens and blues. The dresses are all brown except for the
#   inner ones at 08:00 (white) and 05:30 (green), and the outer ones
#   at 02:00 and 06:00 (green).
#
#   There is a label clockwise from each nymph.
#
#   Rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum ofthis folio is thinner
#   than average.
#
# 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.
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-04-20 03:46:38 by stolfi
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Rene [25 Feb 1997]

Aries and Taurus do play a special role in some alchemical illustrations,
which may be behind this special treatment. A much more down to Earth
explanation may be that the vellum size at this point did not allow
for the complete circles. Note that here the draftsman was still taking
great care with his drawing, but in the later zodiac signs he is getting
more and more careless or hasty and he does cramp complete circles
in smaller areas.