Page f86v4

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Identification

  Title: ???
  Page: f86v4 = NI (Rene) = p167 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f86
  Panels: f86v4
  Bifolio: bN1 = f85+f86
  Quire: N (Rene) = XIV (Beinecke)

  This page comes after page 171 in Landini's file.

  This is the back side of the top center panel of a 12-panel
  fold-out. It is visible when the horizontal fold is closed but the
  vertical fold is open. The bottom side of panel is the folio's edge.
  The top side of the panel is the horizontal crease.

Attributes

  Language: B (Currier)
  Hand: 3 (Currier)
  Subsets: C (Rene), cos (Stolfi)
  Subject: cosmological
  Colors: ??? (Reeds)

Description

  The page contains a circular diagram, and under it a single paragraph 
  of text (5 lines, the last one short and centered).

  The diagram is framed by two faint mechanically dawn circles, and
  four rings of text --- one betweent the two circles, the other three
  just inside the second circle. A wide gap in all four rings at 09:00
  suggests an obviosu starting point, confirmed by four radial strokes
  across the first ring (that may be modern scribbles in the copy,
  however). 

  (There are other simultaneous gaps in all four rings at 01:00 and
  05:00, so the four rings may actually be two or three paragraphs
  side by side.)

  At the center of the diagram there is an uncolored disk, bounded by
  a mechanically drawn circle, containing a small moon---with a dark
  crescent shadow on the left side, and a human face with neutral
  expression on the right.

  Just outside this central disk there is a wide decorated band
  containing four small human figures. The decoration looks like a
  perspective drawing of a flat field, bent around the inner disk with
  the innermost edge being closer to the observer. In the "field"
  there are five parallel rows (concentric rings) of elements, shaped
  like tombstones with rounded top. The "tombstones" are painted in
  various colors, and some have dots, borders, or other simple
  decoration. In the innermost ring, which is unobstructed, the
  elements are fused together at the base.

  Between these rows of "tombstones", the field is packed with round
  objects (which could be bushes, leaves, pebbles, bubbles, etc.).

  The "tombstones" in the first four rows are packed tight, and a
  larger "tombstone" is inserted every 3-6 standard ones. The last row
  (outermost ring) has only small tombstones, painted with alternating
  colors, some distance apart (with some blades of "grass" in
  between). 

  The third row of tombstones is interrupted at 11:30, 02:30, 05:30,
  and 08:30 by four human figures. The human figures are hidden by the
  "bushes" from the waist down. The North figure is barely visible,
  because of a a crease in the vellum. The West and South figures are
  female (with visible breasts), and the same may be true of the other
  two. They wear a white dress with ring collar and broad sleeves,
  apparently tied at the wrists. Their hair is dark but not black, and
  is just long enough to cover the ears. The South, West, and North
  figures have both arms spread out like a "W", with hands open; East
  has only the left arm up, in the same position.

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