Page f8r

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Identification

  Title: "The Bat-Plant"
  Page: f8r = AO (Rene) = p015 (Stolfi)
  Folio: f8
  Panels: f8r
  Bifolio: bA1 = f1+f8
  Quire: A (Rene) = I (Beinecke)

Attributes

  Language: A (Currier)
  Hand: 1 (Currier)
  Subsets: H (Rene), hea (Stolfi)
  Subject: herbal
  Colors: green (Reeds)
  Plant: 14 (Petersen)

Description

  One plant with a single, big, odd-shaped leaf and a "collar"
  around its stem, horizontally centered and spanning the page 
  vertically from edge to edge.

  Three paragraphs (units P1,P2,P3), respectively with 6.5,
  3.6, 6.6 lines, left- and right-justified and interrupted by the
  plant's stem, fill up the bottom 3/4 of the page. Each paragraph
  is followed by a right-justified two-word title (units
  T1,T2,T3).

Comments

  The plant is very strange, both for the leaf shape and for the
  "collar" around the stem. Perhaps it is a mushroom, which the
  artist mistook for a plant and tried to draw as such?

  The text format too is quite unusual, both in its length and in
  the presence of titles. It may be significant that this page is on
  the same bifolio (but not on the same face) as page f1r, whose
  text has a similar structure.

References

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