Page f68v2

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f68v2 = II (Rene) = p127 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f68
  Panels: f68v2
  Bifolio: bI1 = f67+f68
  Quire: I (Rene) = IX (Beinecke)

  This page is the second innermost verso panel of an eight-panel fold-out.

  Brumbaugh p41, called f.68r by him.

Attributes

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

Description

  The page contains a circular diagram, under a paragraph 
  with 5.0 lines (unit P).  The last line is interrupted
  by the diagram.

  The diagram is framed by a circular band of text (unit C),
  between two concentric mechanically drawn thin circles. (An
  extra-wide gap at 10:30 may be the starting point.)
  rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the strokes are thinner than
  in the main text.

  At the center there is a figure that looks pretty much like a
  flower, with eight almond-shaped petals. The petals have serrated
  edges, and overlap randomly. (However some pairs of petals seem to
  be fused.)  The petals have been painted in a dark color.

  At the very center of this "flower" there is an irregular star,
  with twisted rays, in a different color.

  The "flower"'s outline ia an eight-sided star, resembling two
  concentric squares rotated 45 degrees apart.  From the tips
  of each "petal", there sprouts a straight narrow tendril.
  Each tendril soon turns into a radial text line, reading outwards
  (unit R).  Some of the text is therefore upside down.

  The eight sectors defined by these rays alternately contain a
  bunch of unnamed stars, or two radial labels (unit S), collinear
  and reading outwards, with a single star between them. Clockwise
  from the division at 11:30 there are 9, 1, 8, 1, 9, 1, 9, 1 stars,
  i.e. 35 unlabeled ones and 4 labeled ones.  The 03:00 sector (with 8
  stars) has a speckled blotch behind and between two stars.

Comments

  The small central flower may be the Sun. Or it may represent the
  stamens/pistils of the large flower surrounding it.

  The speckles in the 03:00 sector possibly represent a more distant
  star cluster.

  The radial lines should probably be read starting from 10:30, at
  the gap in the outer text ring. Besides, that ray is the only one
  that contains any EVA "p" (two of them).

References

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