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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "Taurus light"
#   * Page: f71v = KB (Rene) = p136 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f71
#   * Panels: f71v
#   * Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
#   * Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)
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#   Newbold plate XXIV (mislabeled 79v).
#   D'Imperio figure 10, page 88 (center).
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#   Roe, 8th September 1993
#   Machine translated from a transcription in Bennett notation of 26/04/90
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: ? (Currier)
#   * Hand: ? (Currier)
#   * Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: zodiac
#   * Colors: red(lots),green(some) (Reeds), red(bull,dresses),green(food,floor,some_hats) (Rene)
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# Description:
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#   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.
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#   In the centre is a bull-like animal (male, horned), painted red,
#   eating from a manger. The ground and the food are painted green.
#   Below the animal is the word ``May'' in the Roman alphabet, with a
#   hat over the "y" (confirmed by Rene [04 Apr 1999]).
#
#   Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are 5 human
#   figures or "nymphs", each standing in a barrel, waist deep,
#   holding a star. One is naked, four are clothed. The barrel at
#   00:00 is ribbed.
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#   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 (in red). Some have hats (some of them green). 
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#   Most figures have visible breasts. All figures have their right
#   hand inside the barrel.
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#   Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.
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#   Rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum ofthis folio is thinner
#   than average.
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# Comments:
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#   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.
#
#   Stolfi [18 Oct 1997] observes that the label <otalody> is
#   "defined" on <f71v.S2.2>, and occurs 20 times in the whole VMs;
#   five of those occurrences are on f58r. [??? Recheck]
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# References:
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# Last edited on 1999-04-21 08:49:50 by stolfi