Page f72v3

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Identification

  Title: "Leo"
  Page: f72v3 = KF (Rene) = p140 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f72
  Panels: f72v4, f72v3
  Bifolio: bK1 = f71+f72
  Quire: K (Rene) = XI (Beinecke)

  This page spans the two outermost verso panels of an eight-panel
  fold-out. (The outermost panel is about 1/3 the width of a normal
  one.)

Attributes

  Language: ? (Currier)
  Hand: ? (Currier)
  Subsets: Z (Rene), zod (Stolfi)
  Subject: zodiac
  Colors: ??? (Reeds), blue_dots(lioness),brick(crown) (Rene)

Description

  [To be checked and completed]

  Three concentric rings of text, deimited by six faint mechanically
  drawn circles. The outer and inner rings have wider word gaps 
  at 08:45. (The middle ring crosses a fold at that point).

  In the centre is an animal resembling a lioness, facing west. The
  animal has a very short and sparse mane, and a long tail ending in
  a tuft of hair. The tail curved down, between or behind the rear
  legs, then up behind body, and then forward. The right front paw
  is lifted and points West. The animal has a muzzle similar to that
  of the nibbling animal in f???, and is showing a longish, narrow,
  pointed tongue.

  Below the lion is a non-Voynichese word, possibly "augst" in
  lowercase Latin letters. There may be a dot over the first leg of
  the "u". The "s" looks like an uncrossed "f" with a straight
  descender. The "t" looks like an EVA "c".

  The three rings of text define two bands containing human figures
  (12 in the inner band, 18 in the outer one), all naked, in 3/4
  view (between frontal and facing clockwise). Each figure holds a
  star with the left hand. The right hand is generally on the hip.

  All the figures are naked. Most have visible breasts and 
  shoulder-long hair.

  Clockwise from each figure there is a short label.

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

Comments

  The animal at the center is probably a lion, the astrological
  symbol for Leo. Leo is ??? to ???.

References

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