Re: "rot" and "f", folio 04r

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "diane.cousteau" <Diane.cousteau@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello all!
>             As I was examining folio 04r, I noticed
> the root of the plant had not been colored in, only
> outlined, and that inside it was written vertically
> the letters "r", "o", and "t", forming the german
> word "rot" or red. On one of the flowers was a clear
> letter "F"....is this extraneous script? Has it been
> accounted for?  Maybe they are indications for
> coloring? An unfinished page? Can someone give me
> more information, please?

I noticed the same, almost exactly two years ago,
when I saw the MS. I wrote about it to the mailing
list and the mail is somewhere in the archive.
These letters are almost invisible
on my copyflo. Where did you see them?
On the original, these actually appear to be the
Greek letters tau and omicron followed by a tau
rotated
over 90 degrees. If you rotate the whole page by
90 degrees you again see tau-omicron-rotated tau.
In Greek, tau omicron represents the number 360 
unless I am much mistaken. Here, as usual, we have
very different possible explanations for a feature
of the MS.

Cheers, Rene


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