Calendar Solution of the Star Section

Dr. Vladimir Sazonov, 19.9.2005

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The Star Section (f102 - f116) is a calendar of 365(366) days, starting from the 1-st of January. Each star corresponds to a day.

Below is the table having the calendar distribution by folios and by stars. I believe in this hypothesis because the The following markers  in the text:

(1) The starting star of  f105r is selected and has an large comment with  unusual gallows.  It marks probably  29 February.

(2) Between 21 March and 22 March  in f106r a small star without text is inserted. It can mark the equinox.

(3) The star of 23 September is moved to the right. It can also mark the the equinox.

(4) Layout of the star section is so, that the beginning of the month is preferable ( 1 Jan, 1 Jul?, 1 Aug, 1 Oct, 1 Nov)

Very important now is to find the exact correspondence between 365(366) days of the star section with  365(366) days in the zodiac section (f70 - f74).

The Zodiac Section starts from March, and January/February is missed, probably in f74.  The Zodiac Section  has the following number of stars:
March - 31, April - 30, May - 30 , June - 30, July - 30, August - 30, September - 31, November - 31, December - 30, it can not exactly correspond to calendar months, but to some artificial "moon phases" or zodiacal movement of the sun.

  Corresponding of articles of the Star Section to the days of the dear

Page Stars From To Comment
f103r 19 1 Jan 19 Jan 7 dark, 12 light, started with dark no tails
f103v 14 20 Jan 2 Feb regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. no tails.
f104r 13 3 Feb 15 Feb mostly regular changes dark/light, started with dark. with tails.(3-4 double-dark.)
f104v 13 16 Feb 28 feb (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f105r 10 29 Feb 9 Mar (discontinue)The first star is selected, large article (29 feb?), dotted as se second star
Mostly regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f105v 10 10 Mar 19 Mar (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f106r 15 20 Mar 3 Apr A small additional dotted star between 21 and 22 March means "Equinox" (not counted)
regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f106v 14 4 Apr 17 Apr regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with light. with tails.
f107r 15 18 Apr 2 May (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f107v 15 3 May 17 May (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f108r 16 18 May 2 Jun 5 dark, 11 light, started with light, 2 (dotted light) with tails
f108v 16 3 Jun 18 Jun  mostly regular changes dark/light, started with dark. with tails.(8-9 two light, 9-dotted)
170 stars from 1 Jan
f109r 12 ? 19 Jun 30 Jun? missed
f109v 10 ? 1 Jul? 10 Jul? missed
f110r 10 ? 11 Jul? 20 Jul? missed
f110v 11 ? 21 Jul? 31 Jul missed
f111r 17 1 Aug 17 Aug 153 stars to the end
regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f111v 19 18 Aug 5 Sept (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f112r 12 6 Sept 17 Sept (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f112v 13 18 Sept 30 Sept 23 Sept-star is slight moved regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark.  with tails.
f113r 16 1 Oct 16 Oct 23 Sept-star is slight moved 
regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with light.  with tails.
f113v 15 17 Oct 31 Oct (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f114r 13 1 Nov 13 Nov (discontinue)regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
f114v 12 14 Nov 25 Nov regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with light.  with tails.
f115r 13 26 Nov 8 Dec (discontinue)mostly regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with dark. with tails.
5-6 is double
f115v 13 9 Dec 21 Dec regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with light.  with tails.
f116r 10 22 Dec 31 Dec regular changes dark(dotted)/light, started with light.  no tails.
Additional text after

Alternative possibilities 
(1)  The first star of f105r means not "29 feb", but "1 March", then,  here is the  start of calendar, corresponding the Zodiacal Section. In this case the Equinox is before 21 March.   This possibility keeps also the preference of starting of  a months at the beginning of a page...


:(2) The small star in f106r can correspond an additional day correction  (29 Feb)