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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f4r = AG (Rene) = p007 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f4
  Panels: f4r
  Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: green,red (Reeds), leaves_red,white,green (Rene)
  Plant: 6 (Petersen)

Description

  One plant, mostly in the right half of the page.

  Two paragraphs (unit P) with 3.8 and 8.6 lines, both above
  mid-page. The first is left- and right-justified, and interrupted
  once by the flowers; the second is left-justified and follows the
  plant's outline on the right.

  The lower stem (between the root and the baggy sleeves) is badly
  faded, together with the nearby parts of the root.
  There may be faint 

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] observes that there is an 'F' marking on the
  rightmost flower. He also reads the markings on the stem as "tau,
  omicron, tau" (the latter rotated 90 degrees), and says that the
  ink looks the same as on the rest of the page.

Comments

  Plant appearance: very normal, exceptionally well-drawn. The layout
  of leaves and flowers is very naturalistic.  The "dark painter"
  apparently spared it.

  The faded parts (lower stem  and roots) may have been erased.
  If that is the case, it must have happened before the 
  "Greek letters" were written.

  Stolfi [10 apr 1999] suggests that the "Greek letters" on the stem
  may be "rot" (German for "red") in Rene's German alphabet[1]. He
  also suggests that the "F" may be a `paint-by-number' code meant
  for the painter [2].

References

  [1] Fritz Saxl, book about astronomical and astrological images in
  medieval manuscripts.

  [2] THE MANUSCRIPT BOOK, by Graham D. Caie and Stephen Harris.
  http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/AllSeafarer/book/BookNar.html

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