Page f71v

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Identification

  Title: "Taurus light"
  Page: f71v = KB (Rene) = p136 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f71
  Panels: f71v
  Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
  Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)

  Newbold calls this folio 79.

  Roe, 8th September 1993
  Machine translated from a transcription in Bennett notation of 26/04/90

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
  Subject: zodiac
  Colors: red(lots),green(some) (Reeds), red(bull,dresses),green(food,floor,some_hats) (Rene)

Description

  Three concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn
  circles. A wider gap in the outer ring at 10:30 may be the 
  starting place.

  In the centre is a bull-like animal (male, horned), painted red,
  eating from a manger. The ground and the food are painted green.
  Below the animal is the word ``May'' in the Roman alphabet, with a
  hat over the "y" (confirmed by Rene [04 Apr 1999]).

  Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are five human
  figures or "nymphs", each standing in a barrel, waist deep,
  holding a star. One is naked, four are clothed. The barrel at
  00:00 is ribbed.

  Between the middle ring and the outer ring are 10 human figures,
  each in a barrel, waist deep, holding a star. Two are naked, eight
  are clothed (in red). Some have hats (some of them green). 

  Most figures have visible breasts. All figures have their right
  hand inside the barrel.

  Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.

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

Comments

  The animal at the center is probably a bull, the astrological
  symbol for Taurus. Taurus is April 20th to May 20th.

  The general appearance of the page is light, in contrast to the
  dark Taurus, f72r1.

References

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