Re: Stars in the margin, was: Re: VMs: Faces at the roots

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> > As Nick noted, there are 403 known ones, plus 60-70 more.
>
> In the last quire of the MS (the stars or recipes section) I counted 324
> paragraphs with a star in the margin. (This is really the number of
> stars - in a few cases one cannot be fully sure that there is a
> paragraphc break).
>
> There are two more pages (ff. 58r and 58v) which have two or three
> marginal stars each. Commonly, the pages in the recipes section have 15
> stars each, so one could assume that the four missing pages had another
> 60, but this is not guaranteed.
>
> The number 15 is interesting ...

And the number 324 + ? is interesting.  What if the the number was 365 (or
366)?  We can't know, of course, but if that were the case, it might help
relate the "recipes" to the zodiacal materials.

> ... Also, in the recipes sections they are coloured yellow and red,
> which does not match the zodiac section.

I noticed also that some have tails and some do not.  For the moment I
have resisted the urge to construct a typology of stars.

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