Page f67v1

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Identification

  Title: "Happy sun"
  Page: f67v1 = ID (Rene) = p122 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f67
  Panels: f67v1
  Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
  Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)

  This is the innermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: A (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
  Subject: astronomical
  Colors: yellow(most_stars), green(some_stars),blue(hairline) (Reeds)

Description

  The page contains only a circular diagram. At the center there is
  a large sun with 18 narrow undulating rays (with two of them
  joined; see below). The sun has a face with a short "frame" beard,
  broad smile, crossed eyes, a blue hairband (or a skullcap with
  blue finge?). At the temples, two locks of light wavy hair escape
  from under the cap.

  There are 17 short titles radiating out of the center, towards the
  diagram's outer frame (unit Y). Each of these radial titles
  starts near the tip of a sun ray, except for the title at 02:00,
  which is connected by thin wavy lines to the tips of two sun rays,
  at 02:00 and 02:30. The text reads outwards, so it is upside down
  from 06:30 through 11:30.

  In each sector between consecutive radial titles there are from
  one to four stars, 39 in total. Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that 
  some stars are green.  Clockwise from the double sun ray,
  the counts per sector are

                    *                
    *             * *     * *        
    * *   * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    3 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2

  Around the diagram there is a narrow band divided into segments, 6
  at the top and 6 at the bottom. The band has wide gaps at left and
  right, where it gets too near the margin. Each segment contains a
  label enclosed in a decorative frame (unit X). 

Comments

  The double ray may be where the stext starts. This guess is
  supported by the line-initial EVA "p". (There is another "p" at
  04:15 and an "f" at 06:30, but they are not line-initial.)

  It is not certain that the labels in the outer band are
  associated with the rays.  The gap on the left side is 
  definitely empty, and that on the right appears to be so.
  Thus there are only 12, or at most 14, labels in the band.

  The decoration in the outer band includes 24 copies of the
  "notched square" symbol, with double vertical edges.

References

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