Page f73v

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Identification

  Title: "Sagittarius"
  Page: f73v = LB (Rene) = p144 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f73
  Panels: f73v
  Bifolio: bL1 = f73+f74
  Quire: L (Rene) = XII (Beinecke)

Attributes

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

Description

  [To be checked and completed]

  Six faint, mostly concentric, mechanically drawn circles delimit
  three rings of text. At 09:30 there is a wider gap in the middle
  ring and a radial stroke (a modern scribble on the copy?) cutting
  across the outer ring.  Rene [07 Apr 1999] reports that the
  text seems to have been written with a sharper than average pen.

  Inside the inner circle is a beardless human figure, apparently
  smiling, walking Westward. The figure (possibly, but not
  necessarily male) is wearing a hat with round rim and a long veil
  or plume falling down the back, to the waist. He also wears a
  shirt with ring collar and broad sleeves, closed at the wrist; a
  flaring skirt, with heavy pleats, down to knee level; and boots to
  mid-leg.

  The figure is holding an armed crossbow, pointing forward and down.

  Between the figure's feet is an almost illegible word, possibly
  "oct" in lowercase Latin alphabet (with a "t" resembling EVA "c")

  Between the rings of text, there are two bands of naked figures
  ("nymphs"), 10 in the inner one and 16 in the outer one. There 
  are 4 additional nymphs standing on top of the outer ring of text.
  Most of them are female (with breasts and shoulder-long hair).

  Each nymph is holding or pointing to a star.

  There is a label just clockwise of each nymph.

  Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that there is some green printout
  on this page, but it doesn't come from f75r.

Comments

References

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