Page f71r

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Identification

  Title: "Aries light"
  Page: f71r = KA (Rene) = p135 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f71
  Panels: f71r
  Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
  Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
  Subject: zodiac
  Colors: green,yellow,blue,red (Reeds), green(floor,bush),uncolored(goat),white(dress_inner_08:00),green(dress_inner_05:30,outer_02:00,outer_06:00),brown(other_dresses),greens+blues(tubs) (Rene)

Description

  A circular diagram defined by six faint mechanically drawn
  concentric circles, forming three narrow bands. The two outer bands
  each contain a ring of text, broken by a decorated section in each
  band, at 10:00.

  In the center there is an animal resembling a beardless goat,
  uncolored, nibbling at a bush, standing on a scalloped (rocky ?)
  ground, painted green. Below it is a non-voynich word "ab*i*l".

  In the space between the inner and middle bands there are 5
  nymphs, and 10 more in the space between the middle and outer
  band. Each nymph is standing inside an upright barrel, with a star
  or flower next to her head. Some stars have tails
  (or stems); some nymphs are holding their stars, by a ray or by
  the tail, others are pointing at them, some have their both hands
  on the hips. All but one of the nymphs are heavily dressed, and
  none have salient breasts or visible nipples.  

  Rene [04 Apr 1999] reports that the barrels are painted with
  greens and blues. The dresses are all brown except for the
  inner ones at 08:00 (white) and 05:30 (green), and the outer ones
  at 02:00 and 06:00 (green).

  There is a label clockwise from each nymph.

  Rene reports [04 Apr 1999] that the vellum ofthis folio is thinner
  than average.

Comments

  Presumably, the "notched square" devices at 10:30 may be the "start
  here" mark of the circular text bands.

  The goat is drawn better than the dark Aries (f70v1), and its legs
  bend the right way, unlike those of the light Aries (f71r). The
  nymphs (and the barrels), on the other and, are even worse than
  those of dark Aries.

References

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