Page f57v

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Identification

  Title: "The 4 times 17 sequence"
  Page: f57v = HB (Rene) = p112 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f57
  Panels: f57v
  Bifolio: bH1 = f57+f66
  Quire: H (Rene) = VIII (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: B (Currier)
  Hand: 2 (Currier)
  Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
  Subject: cosmological
  Colors: tan (Reeds)

Description

  A circular diagram. 

  Eight concentric mechanically drawn circles delimit four rings of
  text. The three innermost rings have extra-wide gaps at about
  10:30. Faint double radial lines, almost but not quite aligned,
  interrupt those three circles at those gaps. There is an isolated
  word outside the outer circle, also at about 10:30, just clockwise
  of the gaps and double lines.

  The four rings contain a mixture of short words and Voynichese
  characters. There are several "weirdoes", including sme that occur
  only here. The second ring from the outside contains 68 single
  characters, consisting of four almost-exact copies of the same
  17-character sequence.  Rene [04 Apr 1999] says that all the 
  characters seem to be in the same ink.

  The diagram is divided into 4 quadrants by straight lines in the
  NE, NW, SW, and SE directions. The lines are drawn with ruler, but
  do not quite meet at the center. They are probably modern
  additions to the copy.

  At the center is a simple rosette, with 4 short and 4 long rounded
  lobes, with a circle and a dot in the middle.

  Inside the innermost circle there are four naked human figures,
  visible from the chest up, heads towards the center. Two are male,
  two female; two are seen mostly from the front two mostly from the
  back; two have both arms raised, two have only one. Here are the
  combinations:

    North:  male,   back,  two arms straight in "V".
    West:   female, front, one arm straight at 45 degrees.
    South:  female, back,  two arms straight in "V".
    East:   male,   front, one arm forward then bent up, holding a ball.

  There are 8 words inside the inner circle. Four of them radiate
  from the rosette, roughly along the diagonal lines.  The other
  four are tangential (but with straight baselines), to be read
  in the clockwise direction; it is not clear whether they
  label the four figures, or the spaces between them.

  Rene observes [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum is suppler than
  average.

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