Page f67r1

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f67r1 = IA (Rene) = p119 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f67
  Panels: f67r1
  Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
  Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)

  Quire I, first page.

  This is the innermost recto panel of a four-panel fold-out.
  There seems to be some confusion in the page numbering in this fold-out;
  it is also listed as page 120.
  [1609.p119|1609.p120]

  Newbold plate III, Brumbaugh p66, both of whom call it f.67r

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
  Subject: astronomical
  Colors: blue,red,yellow (Reeds)

Description

  The page is dominated by a circular diagram, surmounted by a single 
  paragraph of text (4 lines).

  The diagram is framed by three rings of text, delimited by 
  four thin circles.  All three rings are broken at 11:30
  by two radial strokes and a decorated design.

  At the center of the diagram there is a cicle of small "pearls",
  containing a woman's(?) face, with crossed eyes and a bored or
  displeased look. The space between them is dark (hair? shadow?).

  This small circle is surrounded by elongated triangular spikes, painted
  solid dark, forming a 12-pointed star.  The gaps between consecutive
  spikes are filled by kite-shaped regions, with the sharp corner pointing inward.
  The result is another "fat" star with 12 chubby points and finely serrated outlines.
  Each "kite" is split along its diagonal; the clockwise half is painted
  solid dark, the other one is filled with little stars.  

  The space between the "fat star" and the outer circle is divided into
  24 sectors, containing alternately a label and one or two stars.
  (The "star" sectors are those aligned with the starry half-kites.)

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that "the cross[???] near bottom right seems
  like pencil."

  In the SE corner there is a mark resembling a "9" with "ng" superscript.

Comments

  The central face probably represents the moon.

  The mark in the SE corner is almost certainly the quire number,
  "9th" in abbreviated Latin. 

References

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