# # 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; # Levitov figure 5, page 16. # # Attributes: # # * Language: B (Currier) # * Hand: 2 (Currier) # * Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # * Subject: biological # * Colors: b,green (Reeds), yellow(cross),red(cat),ocher(lion),blue(main_fish,right_salamander),green(left_salamander,pond) (Rene) # # Description: # # # Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that the vellum # of this folio has normal thickness. Also that the # tail of the right salamander (blue) has been # painted over with the pond's color (green). # # Comments: # # Michael Roe [1] and others have noted that the object held by the # top left nymph could be a Cristian cross. # # # References: # # [1] Michel Roe's Voynich site, page about illustrations. # http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mrr/voynich/illustrations.html # # Last edited on 1999-04-20 02:21:50 by stolfi