Page f72r2

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Identification

  Title: "Gemini"
  Page: f72r2 = KD (Rene) = p138 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f72
  Panels: f72r2
  Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
  Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)

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

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
  Subject: zodiac
  Colors: green,blue(dress_on_center) (Reeds), green(left_guy),blue(right_lady) (Rene)

Description

  Three concentric rings of text, bounded by faint mechanically drawn
  circles. A short radial stroke at 10:30 in the inner ring may be the 
  starting place.

  In the centre there are two human figures, apparently a man and a woman,
  holding each other hands---left in left, below, and right in right, above.
  The man wears a wide hat, a shirt with long narrow sleeves,
  ring collar, simple belt, a skirt with trimmed edge reaching below the knee, 
  and boots.  The woman wears an elaborate draped dress, with ring collar,
  broad sleeves with wrist bands, a small bonnet with long hair or a veil 
  hanging down her back, and a skirt that drags on the floor.  Between
  the two figures is a word in the latin alphabet (``Jony'' according to 
  Robert Firth.

  Between the inner ring of text and the middle ring are 9 naked
  human figures or "nymphs", all female, each standing with the
  right hand on her hip, holding a star with her left.

  Between the middle ring and the outer ring there are 16 nymphs,
  standing, each holding a star with the left hand. Four are clothed,
  the rest is naked. Most are definitely women (with visible breasts);
  the rest are probably women, or could be. Three of the figures two
  of them clothed) are standing on top of horizontal cylinders,
  resembling the ones on f70v2. Usualy the right hand is resting on
  the hip, but in a couple of cases the right arm is drooping by the
  victim's side, or straight down and back, and one figure (at 04:00)
  has the arms streched out horizontally.

  Standing on top of the diagram, outside the text circle, are another 5
  naked women, right hand on the hip, each holding a star.

  All figures are drawn in 3/4 view, between frontal and clockwise-facing.
  Some of the figures are walking. Some of the figures have hats.

  Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.

  Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that this folio is all curled up.

Comments

  The sign of Gemini, the Twins, has sometimes been represented by a 
  man and woman. Gemini is ??? to ???.

References

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