Page f39r

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f39r = EM (Rene) = p075 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f39
  Panels: f39r
  Bifolio: bE2 = f34+f39
  Quire: E (Rene) = V (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: B (Currier)
  Hand: 2 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), heb (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: green,tan,brown (Reeds), blue(pod),yellow(flower)
  Plant: 75 (Petersen)

Description

  One plant flush against the left, right and bottom edges of the page, 
  filling the bottom half of the page.

    Root: a very broad tuber, like a fat pancake with flat light
      upper surface and dark edge.  A ring of 19 "fat mousetail" roots---
      dark, short and S-shaped---sprout from the edge; they seem
      to support the "pancake" like the legs of a table.
    Stem: many short straight stems sprout separately from the top surface
      of the "pancake". Each stem ends with a leaf.
    Branches: occasional short branches, each having a 
      single leaf at the tip.
    Leaves: two spindle-shaped leaves fused at the base, forming a 
      "V" with fat arms and pointed tips.  No leaf stalks.
    Flowers: a single flower.
      Stalk: longish.  Chalyx: spindle-shaped, with small triangular
      sepals.  Petals: seven small scale-shaped petals.  Core: small.

  There are three paragraphs of text (with 4.3, 3.4, 5.9 lines)
  above the plant, flush against the top margin. Below the third one
  there is a centered line with 4-5 words; it may be part of the
  paragraph. The first two paragraphs span margin-to-margin; the
  last one is even on the left, and extends right up to the plant's
  outline on the right, even touching it.

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that the ink is darker
  than in most pages.

  On the top margin, left side, there is a printout of the
  flower from f38v.

Comments

  An almost identical copy of this drawing appears on f95r2. The
  drawing on this page is drawn with more skill, and the flowers are
  more detailed. The root is flatter, and its upper surface is
  ligher. Also the flowers sprout from the side of the stem, not
  from its tip as in f95r2.

References

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