Re: The concentric rings on f57v...?

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,
    If we refer to the copy of f57v that you refer to which is available
online at Beinecke and Zoom on the image we can see 4 roughly drawn lines
across the borders of the concentric circles, which may be what you are
referring to. It strikes me here that if the circles themselves can be drawn
so precisely then why aren't the lines also drawn with a straight edge? Also,
on the penultimate circle that you refer to there actually appear to be 2
parallel strokes marked through this circle. Lines drawn roughly from the
center of the medallion where "the character immediately clockwise from these
lines on the penultimate ring of letters [the ring of 4 x 16 single
characters] is always "o" do not appear (unless I misunderstand your
directions and am on the wrong folio; note that Beinecke labels this folio
f54v). BTW, if you include the "o" in your count then the penultimate ring of
single characters is 4 x 17. I do not know whether or not the scribe of the
VMS drew these lines. What I find somewhat more interesting are the arm
signals of the figures in the middle of the medallion. And what is that
circular object (ring/fruit?) held in the hand of one of the figures?

Regards,
Dana Scott


Nick Pelling wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> On the monochrome image I'm looking at of f57v (the page with the four
> concentric rings), there are four straight lines emerging roughly from the
> centre: the character immediately clockwise from these lines on the
> penultimate ring of letters [the ring of 4 x 16 single characters] is
> always "o".
>
> My question is: does it look like those four lines were part of the
> original page design?
>
> It's *really* hard to tell from the picture I have here. :-(
>
> Thanks very much, .....Nick Pelling.....