Re: VMs: Re: 67v: Single sticks, double-split, double-joined...

[<elillie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jeff and Luis.

I too had noticed the border you speak of on 67V1. It also occurs on folio
67R2 where it alternates with several other repeating characters of
similar nature.
As to where you recall seeing something similar to this border, I've
always thought it looks alot like the "sky bands" that encircle a lot of
Mayan  sculpture panels and ceramic pieces. The "Sky Band" represents the
plane of the ecliptic and consists of a series of glyphs representing
astronomical bodies. Within their surviving manuscripts, the Paris Codex
has many good examples of "Sky Bands". Two are at:
http://www.famsi.org/research/graz/paris/paris_page22.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/mjfinley/zodiac.jpg

These were quickly located with a Google search for Paris Codex Images. It
and the other two main manuscripts (Madrid Codex and the Dresden Codex)are
all filled with examples of it.
Whether the single and double lines you note are examples of additional
content or signs of an impatient scribe I don't know.
Erni



> Hi Luis
>
> I seem to remember that it is not only this page that has such
> a decorated border. I have seen something very similar online
> and have had a nagging feeling about it for a quite a while now.
> Unfortunately I didn't record the url at the time.
>
> Whether or not this actually signifies anything other than
> decoration is anyone's guess. To my mind it probably does not.
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luis Velez" <luis.velez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 27 April 2005 12:46
> Subject: VMs: 67v: Single sticks, double-split, double-joined...
>
>
>> Can't recall if in the many comments generated by the new scans, this
>> was noted:
>>
>> the small markers that separate the text units on the edge of the
>> circle in 67v are composed by sets of four little sticks (in a cross
>> pattern) that are sometimes double, sometimes single, sometimes double
>>  but joined at the end. Deliberate action or carelessness of the
>> illustrator? If deliberate, what is the purpose? Has anyone seen these
>>  markers in other MSs ?
>>
>> They seem deliberate in that they are only double-split between the
>> end  of the first and the beginning of the second label, of the the
>> lower  hemisphere; and at the beggining of the last label of the upper
>>  hemisphere. Another tantalizing oddity, I guess...
>>
>> Luis
>>
>
>
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