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# Identification:
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#   * Title: "The Bat-Plant"
#   * Page: f8r = AO (Rene) = p015 (Stolfi)
#   * Folio: f8
#   * Panels: f8r
#   * Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8
#   * Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)
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# Attributes:
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#   * Language: A (Currier)
#   * Hand: 1 (Currier)
#   * Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
#   * Subject: herbal
#   * Colors: green (Reeds)
#   * Plant: 14 (Petersen)
#
# Description:
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#   One plant with a single, big, odd-shaped leaf and a "collar"
#   around its stem, horizontally centered and spanning the page 
#   vertically from edge to edge.
#
#   Three paragraphs (units 程P1},程P2},程P3}), respectively with 6.5,
#   3.6, 6.6 lines, left- and right-justified and interrupted by the
#   plant's stem, fill up the bottom 3/4 of the page. Each paragraph
#   is followed by a right-justified two-word title (units
#   程T1},程T2},程T3}).
#
# Comments:
#
#   The plant is very strange, both for the leaf shape and for the
#   "collar" around the stem. Perhaps it is a mushroom, which the
#   artist mistook for a plant and tried to draw as such?
#
#   The text format too is quite unusual, both in its length and in
#   the presence of titles. It may be significant that this page is on
#   the same bifolio (but not on the same face) as page f1r, whose
#   text has a similar structure.
#
#   Michael Roe [1] reports that this plant has been tentatively identified
#   with ivy ("kisso" in Dioscorides, "liblab" in Arabic; or
#   or perhaps the variety "xamai'kissos", transliterated into 
#   Arabic as "khmqlsws").
#
# References:
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#   [1] Michel Roe's Voynich site, page about plants.
#   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mrr/voynich/plants.html
#
# Last edited on 1999-04-16 15:06:58 by stolfi