Page f4v

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f4v = AH (Rene) = p008 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f4
  Panels: f4v
  Bifolio: bA4 = f4+f5
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: brown,green,blue (Reeds), dark_blue_flower (Rene)

Description

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

  Two paragraphs (unit P) with 5.4 and 7.5 lines, both above
  mid-page. The first is left- and right-justified; the second is
  left-justified, and follows the plant's profile on the right.

Comments

  Plant appearance: very, very odd, badly drawn. It seems to have
  two types of leaves. The lower ones are too small, badly spaced
  and badly proportioned, and in unnatural positions. The upper ones
  look like pompons. The root has a strange, ungainly shape (but
  that may be the work of the Dark Painter). The stems have uneven
  and unnatural thickness.

  This drawing is almost certainly an expanded version of plant
  f101r1[1,5]. Stolfi suggested that the person who drew this page
  thought that the star-shaped things in f101r1[1,5] were flowers,
  so he supplied fantasy leaves; and he only noticed the mistake
  halfway through the plant.

References

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