Page f101v2
[f101r1] [index] [f102r1]
Identification
Title: ???
Page: f101v2 = SG (Rene) = p205 (Stolfi)
Folio: f101
Panels: f101v2+f101v1
Bifolio: bS2 = f100+f101
Quire: S (Rene) = XVII (Beinecke)
Panel f101v1 labeled f100v in Brumbaugh.
From Brumbaugh: p86: ``medicinal herbs''
An enlargement of this page is reproduced in O'Neill's paper,
called page f101v.
This page spans two normal-size panels (f101v2 and f101v1) in a
four-panel fold-out folio; the text and plants clearly connect
across the joining fold. They were originally entered as two
separate pages (f101v2 and f101v1). Serial page number p206,
formerly f101v1, is no longer assigned. [Stolfi]
Correspondence between old line numbers on f101v1 and current ones:
old current
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<f101v1.R1.[1..5]> <f101v2.R1.[5..9]>
<f101v1.R2.[1..5]> <f101v2.R2.[5..9]>
<f101v1.P.1> right half of <f101v2.P.1>
<f101v1.P.2> right half of <f101v2.P.1a>
<f101v1.P.[3..9]> right half of <f101v2.P.[2..8]>
<f101v1.T.10> right half of <f101v2.T.9>
Correspondence between old plant numbers in this page and current ones:
old current
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f101v1.[1,1..5] f101v2.[1,5..9]
f101v1.[2,1..5] f101v2.[2,5..9]
f101v1.[3,1..5] f101v2.[3,6..10]
Attributes
Language: A (Currier)
Hand: ? (Currier)
Subsets: P (Rene), pha (Stolfi)
Subject: pharmaceutical
Colors: red,b,tan,red[panel_v2],???[panel_v1] (Reeds), blue+red(container_1),grn+blue+red(container_2),blue+red(container_3),blue(2_plant_parts) (Rene)
Description
The top 2/3 of the page contain three rows of plants, with 9, 9,
and 10 plants, respectively. The fold between the two panels falls
to the right of plants [1.4] and [2.4], and cuts through plant
[1.5].
In rows 1 and 2, each plant has a one-word label (units "R1" and
"R2"), at its right or above, except perhaps for plant [1,7]. The
plants in row 3 are unlabeled.
There are also three containers crammed into the left margin of
the page (panel v2 only), next to each row of plants. No labels
are visible on them (but the image is too dark to tell for sure).
All three containers have a simple cylindrical shape. They are
dark painted, undecorated except for a few narrow rings, light
colored, some of them with dots. The relative ring positions, from
the bottom, are: 0.0, 0.7, 1.0 (top container); 0.0, 0.3, 0.8, 1.0
(middle), and 0.0, 0.8, 1.0 (bottom).
Below the plants are three paragraphs, with 2.7, 2.8, and 3.0 lines
(unit P). The first two lines of the paragraph 1 are interrupted
by the roots of plants [3,8] and [3,9].
Below the last paragraph there is a centered partial line or "title"
(unit T). It may be simply the last line of paragraph 3.
Plant descriptions:
ROW 1:
1 headroot, bugroot, bird or crab?root [John Grove]
[1,1] Root: two thick horizontal roots; the left one seems truncated,
the right one makes an S-curve, and tapers down to a blunt point.
Stem: vertical and unbranched. Leaves: rounded, with five
big dents and many smaller ones (like a coarse circular saw blade);
with long stalks, paired except for a lone leaf at top. (May be flowers?).
[1,2] Root: fat knobby carrot. Stem: vertical, unbranched. Leaves:
trowel-shaped, drooping, no stalks, toothed edges. Flower:
one, large, horizontal; the image is too dark to see any detail.
[1,3] Root: rather peculiar---the base of the stem bifurcates
like an inverted "U", and each arm ends with a "fat carrot",
barely wider than it. The arms of the "U" are thicker than the
stem and almost as thick as the "carrots"). Stem: vertical,
with two paired horizontal branches. Leaves: quite strange, look like
ice-cream cones with thick walls, inserted upside-down on the
leaf stalks.
[1,4] Root: begins like a small carrot but immediately splits
into three tapering and diverging rootlets. Stem: vertical,
with two paired horizontal branches. Leaves: on medium-length
stalks, paired (except for lone leaf at top), triangular, with
two round lobes and two "horns" on the long sides, near the
base. (Each leaf resembles a toy "space shuttle" with two
pairs of wings).
[1,5] This plant is barely visible in the source image, but part
of it can be seen in the reproduction of page f101v2. Root:
dense round mass, perhaps a spiny tuber. Stem: unbranched,
vertical. Leaves: two, oblong, paired, at end of stem.
[1,6] Root: "fat crossed legs". Stem: vertical, unbranched.
Leaves: paired, triangular, with somewhat drooping stalks.
[1,7] Root: "lock of hair". Stem: vertical, unbranched.
Leaves: paired, broad, lance-shaped, with slightly dented edges,
pointing fully down.
[1,8] Root: two horizontal, diverging,tapering branches. Stem:
vertical, unbranched, slightly curved. Leaves: maize-like,
without stems, curved down. The leaves are partly obscured
by bleedtrough from the leaves of f101r1[1,2]
[1,9] Root: four horizontal branches, two on either side;
the bottom ones are shorter and curved inwards, like
crab's claws. Stem: vertical, unbranched. Leaves:
oval, ending with a point, with short stems; paired and
perpendicular to the stem, except for a single leaf at the
top.
ROW 2:
[2,1] Looks like a single leaf, without root or stem.
The leaf is round, dark, with scalloped edges. In the center
of the top side there is a light "C", with the opening pointing SE;
the stalk is apparently attached to the underside, roughly at
the center of the "C".
[2,2] Root: with two horizontal branches, dark and thickened,
with downturned tips and many down-pointing hairs (like a thick
moustache that needs to be trimmed.) Stem: straight, pointing NE,
with two paired branches that start horiontal but curve up
(the whole resembles a three-armed candelabrum). Leaves:
three flyswatter-like leaves (or dense leaf clusters) with
toothed distal edge.
[2,3] Root: a tilde-shaped main root, almost horizontal,
pointing W, with 7 short, tapering, curved rootlets (like bird's claws).
Stem: vertical, unbranched. Leaves: a big round leaf, with toothed edge,
and a wide slice missing at the bottom part (where the stem is
connected to the leaf center). Alternatively it could be
a fan-like cluster of tightly packed, long and narrow leaves.
[2,4] Root: it has two horizontal branches, smooth, tapered
and slightly curved, each having a roundish "hump" where it
gets near the stem. It also has a "fat mousetail" stretching
down from the base of the stem and gradually curving towards
West. Stem: vertical, somewhat curved, unbranched. Leaves (or
flowers): light-colored, two paired, three alternate, a single
one at the end of the stem; all with long slightly crooked
stalks. Each leaf is a star with 8 to 10 sharp triangular
rays, with a dot at the center.
[2,5] Root: two short worm-like branches, bent horizontally to the left.
Stem: practically none. Leaves: Large, round, with round-toothed
edges, coneccted directly to the root by thin mostly upright
stalks. The leaves were painted in alternating lightand dark tones.
(The "leaves" could also be leaf clusters, and the "stalks" could be
branches.)
[2,6] Root: a small knobby carrot, dark, pointing to the right.
Stem: several twisted branches rising from the root. Leaves:
round, with large round teeth, with stems resembling the branches.
[2,7] Root: very small, basically six short strokes pointing
to the sides and down. Stem: practically null. Leaves:
two, paddle-shaped, paired.
[2,8] Root: long and thin, unbranched, worm-like, growing
almost horizontally to the left, ending with a single whisker.
Stem: short and upright. Leaves: only one, growing up from
the top of the stem; broad, eye-shaped, with many peg-like
teeth.
[2,9] Root: a short knobby carrot, growing horizontally
to the left. Stem: none. Leaves: broad, lance-shaped,
undulating, with a medium-length stalk, attached directly to the root.
ROW 3:
[3,1] Root: a small bulbous tuber, bent W (like a small
eggplant), ending with a short rootlet. Stem: vertical,
unbranched. Leaves: eigth paired, one at the top; feather-like
with many sharp leaflets, resembling the branches of a pine
tree. (The image is too dark to tell for sure).
[3,2] Root: a dense brush of short S-shaped rootlets, with a
single long mousetail stretching out in the SW direction. Stem: verrtical,
unbranched, slightly curved NW at the top. Leaves: triangular,
with slightly serrated edges, narrow but stiff, horizontal, paired,
with medium-short stalks. Flower(?): a large one at the top of the
stem, resembling a sunflower, apparently without petals. (That part
of the image is obscured by a blot or bleedthrough.)
[3,3] Root: four straight spines, narrow and sharp, pointing
SW. Stem: vertical, short, unbranched. Leaves: a single
broad fan-shaped cluster, resembling the tail of a turkey.
Each leaf is long with a rounded tip, slightly curved
upwards. Flowers(?): two, with long stalks branching out
diagonally from mid-stem and extending above the leaf cluster.
The chalyx(?) looks like a flat round saucer; the
corolla is cylindrical, with scalloped upper edge.
(Details are hard to see in the image.)
[3,4] Root: shaped like a fat comma, with a human face
on the round part, and a couple of whiskers extending
Westward from the tip. Stem: straight, with two
nearly horizontal short branches, paired. Leaves:
seven, irregularly placed, with medium-short stalks.
Each leaf is wider than its length, with 4-5 rounded
lobes on the distal edge (vaguely like the outline of
a Chinese pot-sticker).
[3,5] (This plant is largely obscured by the fold between
panels v2 and v1.) Root: only one tip is visible, West of the
fold---mostly horizontal, curved up, cylindrical, ending abruptly
with a hooked rootlet. Stem: apparently short and vertical. Leaves:
a single fan-like cluster, about 60 degrees wide, of long narrow
leaves, resembling palm leaflets.
[3,6] Root: small nondescript tuber with many hairs. Stem:
vertical, unbranched. Leaves: broad, lance-shaped (almost round),
with a short "beak".
[3,7] Root: small carrot-like main root ending with three short rootlets.
Stem: two branches (or leaf stalks) rising from the root, one vertical, one oblique.
Leaves: two, each with 5 lance-shaped fingers, narrow and long,
fanning out from the end of the stalk, with a spread of about 60 degrees.
[3,8] Root: twisted humpy tuber, mostly horizontal, with several
rootlets at the periphery. Stem: straight, unbranched. Leaves:
two paired, lance-shaped, with very short stalks, attached at
mid-stem. Flowers: a single spindle-shaped inflorescence, at the
tip of the stem.
[3,9] Root: two round, light tubers, with a fringe of rootlets at the
bottom. Stem: vertical, unbranched. Leaves: almond-shaped,
tapering to a point; paired, except for the only one at the top.
[3,10] Root: a round bulb with a long, narrow, tapering root growing
horizontally to the right. Stem: vertical, unbranched. Leaves:
triangular "fans" or "spatulas" (somewhat gingko-like) broad and
short, paired, attached directly to the stem and coplanar with
it. Fruits: three dark berries with medium-length stalks and a
light-colored circle at the top. (The "fruits" could be
flowers.)
Comments
As proof that panels f101v2 (this page) and f101v1
comprise a single logical page, note that v1 has no containers,
but otherwise has the same layout as v2: three rows of plants (the
first two labeled), and three paragraphs at the bottom. Moreover
the paragraphs in v2 have 3.0, 3.0, and 3.0 lines, all aligned
with those of v1; and the last paragraph of v2 is followed by a
right-justfied title---which lines up neatly with the last line of
v1. [Stolfi]
The source of the reproduction in O'Neill's paper is acknowledged
as "Through the kindness of Mrs Voynich, the owner of the Ms, Dr.
Petersen of this institution, possesses a photostat copy of it".
[Gabriel 98/Mar/07]
The position of the containers suggests they were not
planned from the beginning, but added after the plant drawings
were complete. In fact this seems to be true of the whole pharma
section. [Stolfi]
"Fair copies" of some of these plant drawings are found elsewhere. [Stolfi]
Some of the plants on row 2 could be algae. [Stolfi]
Plant [1,2] strongly resembles the "sunflower" on f93r. [Stolfi]
Plant [2,4] has roots with 'knots' as if it's a tree. The leaves
look like chestnut's. [Rene 98/Aug/16]
The leaves and overall shape of plant [3,1] resemble those of
plant f100v[3,3]. [Stolfi]
The root and face on the root of plant [3,4] are standard medieval
symbolism. (Presumably it means that a "good" specimen is one
whose shape and spots resemble a human face, just as a "good"
mandrake root is one that resembles a human body.) [Stolfi 98/Aug/13]
References
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