Annotated Folio Walkthroughs

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Herbal A (Scribe 1) · Yale PDF p. 3

Folio f1r · The Grand Opening Manifesto & Marginal Index Key

Opens the manuscript with the famous gallows declaration fachys ykal ar ataiin, five left-margin index letters (y, s, d, o, a), and a centered boxed caption (dain os teody) at the bottom of paragraph 1.

Folio f1r · The Grand Opening Manifesto & Marginal Index KeyFolio f1r detail crop
Folio f1r (Yale PDF p. 3) · Click scan to zoom

Clause-by-Clause Reading

f1r.1

Here begins the declaration (fachys) of the primary essence (ykal) from the first measured source (ar ataiin): the washed liquid extract (shol shory) is combined (cthres) with the core root-heart (y kor) and steeped in liquid (sholdy).

f1r.2

Draw (sory) from the heart-extract (ckhar) and oil essence (or) one infused measure (chtaiin) of the pure core (y kair), dividing the root-extract (cthar cthar) into the dose (dan).

f1r.5 (Centered Box Title =Pt)

[Centered Boxed Caption]: Take this (dain) prepared star/seed essence compound (os teody).