Page f70r1

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f70r1 = JC (Rene) = p131 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f70
  Panels: f70r1
  Bifolio: bJ1 = f69+f70
  Quire: J (Rene) = X (Beinecke)

  This page is the innermost recto panel of a six-panel fold-out.

Attributes

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

Description

  The page contains only a circular diagram, framed by three faint
  mechanically drawn circles and three rings of text (unit C).

  The first ring of text lies just inside circle #1 (the outermost
  one). Only the top half of the ring is filled, and mostly with
  dots and circles; the text proper is only a couple of words.

  Text rings #2 and #3 lie just outside circles #2 and #3. There are
  extra-wide word gaps at about 10:30, not aligned, and smaller but
  aligned gaps at 01:30.

  Inside the frame there is a textured and lightly-colored disk,
  whose outline is broken by nine features with frilled edges that
  resemble fat mushrooms, or squashed cauliflowers, or sea anemones
  without tentacles, or... um... well....

  Between the text frame and the "mushroom thing" there are nine
  radial phrases (unit Y), each with two or three words, reading
  inwards, starting near the frame and ending in the notch between
  two consecutive "mushrooms".

  At the center of the diagram there us a star with six slender
  arms, inscribed in a circle with 58 short and rounded fingers.
  Every other finger bears some dots. Starting with the finger at
  the tip of the 10:30 arm, and reading counterclockwise, we have
  the following dot counts:

    +           +               +                           -
    2 3 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 3 2            
    ^           ^        ^           ^         ^       ^                 

  The items marked "+" and "-" may be one more or one less than
  shown, respectively; so the total number of dots lies between 91
  and 95, most likely 92. The "^"s mark the approximate position of
  the star arms.  (The fifth arm actually ends between the first
  3-dot finger and the following blank one.)

  Between the star arms there are six labels (unit X), reading inwards.

  A faint straight radial line extends from the 10:30 arm and
  bisects the corresponding mushroom (which happens to be the
  smallest one).

  Just outside the many-fingered disk there is a ring of text
  (unit I). Its starting point seems to be the radial line at 10:30.

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] notes an "a" in pencil [where??]"

Comments

  The starting point of the outer ring is probably at the aligned gaps
  at 01:30, although the person who scribbled on the copy seemed
  to prefer the non-aligned gaps at 10:30.

  The starting point of the outer labels may be at 01:30 too, since
  that label has a "p" gallows. Another possibility is the label at
  10:30, just counterclockwise of the smalest "mushroom" (and of its
  bisecting line).

  John Grove thinks that the labels were written counter-clockwise
  as those that are upside down are the ones between 6:00-1:00.

References

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