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Identification

  Title: "Four constellations with faces"
  Page: f67v2 = IC (Rene) = p121 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f67
  Panels: f67v2
  Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
  Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)

  This is the outermost verso panel of a four-panel fold-out.

  Machine-translated by Roe, 6th September 1993 from transcription in
  Bennett notation dated April 1990.

  This is plate XX in Newbold, and plate IV in Manly31. Newbold's
  folio number scheme has this as 67r.

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
  Subject: cosmological
  Colors: green,red,yellow,blue (Reeds), green,blue,red(bot_left_circle) (Rene)

Description

  A circular diagram with four smaller circular medallions touching
  it at the NE, SE, SW and NW corners.

  The main diagram is framed by a band delimited by two faint,
  concentric, mechanically drawn circles, centered on the page. The
  outer circle touches the vertical edges of the page.

  Between these two circles there are four "captions", North, South,
  East and West (text units "C1", "C2", "C3", and "C4",
  respectively), each in two short lines, reading clockwise.

  In the center of the large diagram there is an irregular green square,
  within which is inscribed another circle, within which is a star
  with 6 or 7 arms. The space between the star and the circle is
  filled with "spiral galaxy" hatching, whose "arms" bend
  counterclockwise-out. There are two words above the square
  (unit S1) and another two below it (unit S2).

  From the square, lines radiate out in the E, S, W, and N
  directions. Each of these four lines is labeled (units "L1"
  through "L4") and terminates with a branching structure.

  Lines come in towards the square from the perimeter of the large
  circle in the NW, NE, SE and SW direction. Each of these four
  lines is labeled (units "L5" through "L8") and terminates with a
  branching structure. Nested in these structures are two suns (NW
  and SE) and two moons (NE and SW), all with faces.

  The small circles in the corners contain between three and four
  human faces, joined by lines. NE circle: four faces connected by a
  cross, and one label (unit F2). SE circle: four faces, in "L"
  pattern (with the second face centered on the vertical and wearing
  a pointy hat), and one label (unit F1). SW circle: four faces at each
  point of a square "U", on a coloured background; the two on the
  bottom of the "U" are upside down. (John Grove speculates that
  there is a fourth face hidden behind the first one on L5). NW
  circle: three circular faces with one face on each point of a
  reversed "4".

Comments

  This is the folio Newbold claimed showed an annular eclipse. See
  also John Manley's 1931 article in Speculum: ``Furthermore, I
  invite the reader to examine carefully Plate IV and say whether it
  bears any resemblance whatever to an annular eclipse.''

References

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