Quire 10 diagrams

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70r2: a central figure containing a face (discussed in the above posts) surrounded by a band of text. A second circle is drawn around it, from which sixteen shapes protrude: every other one is a short, wavy, flame-like shape, while the remaining 8 form an initial bulb which stretches outwards in straight lines to meet the edges of a third circle. In between each of these, 8 more shapes, triangular with scalloped edges, also point towards the outer circle, ending in straight lines.
The diagram is surrounded by four bands of text.
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Looking at the other two folios, there may be some significance to the number of features depicted: 70v1's 58 petals and 9 divisions, or 70v2's 16 (or 2x8) divisions.
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very late to this particular party/thread though I remembered the mention of 'sixteen' here on Ninja... I came across a quote of sixteen in an astronomical sense: Here is a quote form Cicero, De Divinatione (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) that mentions that the Etruscians divided the sky into 16 sections fitting the f70v2 16-fold division:

'... long-continued observation is employed in the case of lightnings, and reason and conjecture are generally employed in the case of portents. But what is it that has been observed in the case of lightnings? The Etruscans divided the sky into sixteen parts. Of course it was easy enough for them to double the four parts into which we divide it and then double that total and tell from which one of those divisions a bolt of lightning had come. In the first place, what difference does its location make? and, in the second place, what does it foretell? It is perfectly evident that, out of the wonder and fear excited in primitive man by lightning and thunderbolts, sprang his belief that those phenomena were caused by omnipotent Jove. And so we find it recorded in our augural annals: 'When Jove thunders or lightens it is impious to hold an election.'