Page f68r1

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Identification

  Title: "Sun over Moon"
  Page: f68r1 = IE (Rene) = p123 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f68
  Panels: f68r1
  Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
  Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)

  This is the innermost recto panel of an eight-panel fold-out.

  Krauss plate 31(top).

Attributes

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

Description

  The page contains a circular diagram surmounted by a paragraph
  with 3.5 lines (unit P). 

  The diagram consists of a faint circular outline filled with 
  29 randomly placed stars, each with a label (unit S). 

  At the top and bottom of the diagram, just inside the outline, there
  are two smaller circular medallions.

  The top medallion (the Sun) sports a ring of fang-shaped rays.
  Inside it is the face of a woman, with short curly hair and
  crossed eyes; and three voynichese words (unit X).

  The bottom medallion is framed by a circular band with some text
  (unit Y). Inside the frame is the face of a man(?), also with
  crossed eyes, apparently with short hair and a "frame" beard, both
  dark.

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] observes that the page is marked "a" with
  pencil on the upper left corner[???].

Comments

  The two medallions presumably represent the Sun and Moon. Compare
  this diagram with the following one (f68r2), which is visible at
  the right when the foldout is open.

References

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