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Identification
Title: ???
Page: f78r = MG (Rene) = p151 (Stolfi)
Folio: f78
Panels: f78r
Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81
Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke)
Newbold plate V, Kraus XXIX, Kraus Autobiog p220
Color reproduction in Frank Smythe's book [1].
Attributes
Language: B (Currier)
Hand: 2 (Currier)
Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi)
Subject: biological
Colors: b,red,green (Reeds), red(openings),blue(flow,some_bubbles),green(pools) (Rene)
Description
The page contains a block of text (unit P), apparently consisting
of two paragraphs with 24.5 and 15.9 lines. The second
paragraph begins with an EVA <p> with extra-wide "head", decorated
by four sets of three vertical pen strokes.
An illustration takes up the top margin and the rightmost 1/4 of
the page, extending to the midline in some places.
At the top corners of the panel, right against the edges, are two
objects that look like parasols. Each parasol is topped by a
short spike that ends with a ball, and consists of some
20 "petals" with round tips. Nestled under each parasol is a
hemispherical "bunch of grapes" (which could be the tips of
many other "petals" like the ones that make up the parasol.
From the bottom of each "bunch of grapes" there issues a stream of
liquid, represented by three or four parallel wiggly lines. The
streams pass through a succession of diconnected "pipes", each
being a hollow cylinder with thick wall, flat edge at the top, and
a ring or band around the bottom edge, decorated by three or four
longitudinal lines of dots. The stream issuing from the top left
"parasol" runs through four "pipes" as it runs across the top
margin. The stream from the right parasol goes through one "pipe".
Then the two streams merge just before entering another "pipe" and
a "funnel". The latter is similar to a "pipe" except that it is
somewhat narower at the bottom, ends with a thick flange instead
of just a band, and the three dotted lines run transversely rather
than longitudinally.
The merged stream pours into a roundish "pool", full of "water"
(some liquid) up to about a foot below the rim. The pool sides are
smooth and vertical. There is a narrow band around the edge of the
pool, decorated with alternating dots and groups of three
trasversal strokes.
Inside the pool are seven naked women or "nymphs". Four are in the
distal (top) half of the pond, seemingly sitting on the water's
surface, one of them facing right, the other three facing left.
Three more nymphs are in the proximal (bottom) half, lying down on
the water, all with the head to the left. The water was painted
with a dark opaque green, apparently with a broad pen-like
instrument (as opposed to a brush), clearly after the outlines
were drawn (apparently with the same ink as the text).
All nymphs have their legs partly hidden by the water, and have
lighter green brush strokes on their tighs. The top left nymph
wears a narrow headband; the two nymphs to her right wear wider
headbands, which could be hats or hairdos.
A narrow stream of water runs off the proximal right end of the pool,
through a wavy channel, down the right mergin, and ends in a second
pool. This pool is like the first one, except that the border around
it is narrower and undecorated.
Inside the second pool are eight "nymphs", standing knee-deep in
dark-colored water, facing to the left. Three are in the distal
half of the pond, five in the proximal half. The leftmost nymph
has her hand on what looks like a round shelf, attached to the
pond's wall, at water level; there may be objects on top of the
shelf. Some nymphs mahe be wearing bath caps, or cap-like
hairdos.
Every nymph (in both ponds) has one hand on or near her hip or
buttock, and the other arm stretched forwards and down, pointing
or touching a neighboring nymph. Most if not all the nymphs have
red accent spots on their cheeks and (possibly) on their nipples.
Where visible, their hair is wavy and uncolored hair, sometimes
short, sometimes long.
There are 6 or 7 labels (unit X) on several parts of the figure.
The two parasols are <okchdldlo> (left) and <okchdy> (right).
The "pipe" under the confluence of the two streams is <dar.aloifhy>
and the "funnel" is <dchedaly>. The two ends of the
channel are labeled <otarodlor.orory> and <okaral>, although
<otarodlor> may be attached to the top pond.
Rene [07 Apr 1999] observes that the vellum has normal thickness.
Comments
References
[1] Smythe, Frank. "A Script Full of Secrets" and "The Uncrackable
Code" in "Mysteries of Mind, Space & Time: The Unexplained", pp.
3062-3069. H. S. Stuttman, Inc., Westport, Connecticut, USA.
Copyright 1992 by Orbis Publishing, Inc. [Originally published in
"The Unexplained" in the UK.]
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