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RE: Hand Copying the Entire Manuscript - seridane - 10-07-2026
(10-07-2026, 01:53 AM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-07-2026, 11:58 PM)seridane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I highly recommend doing it if you really want to deep dive your brain into the imagery - it's one thing to look at the images, another entirely to examine them in detail in order to redraw them. And the text as well.
Hi seridane!
I enjoyed looking at your drawings, they are beautiful, and also interesting in terms of the choices you made, not only to see it from your point of view, but it also helps me see the vms version even better. I noticed a few differences, but it's funny, some I just accept, like your nymphs are different, but somehow they just seem like they are your nymphs instead of the makers' nymphs, doing similar things. But some other differences I found enough to give a few alternate answers, if someone used your copy as the basis to answer certain questions about a vms page. Maybe those things don't matter either, it's hard to say until we know what it all is. But i very much enjoyed having something to compare, and those differences made it all the more interesting! I got both a clearer sense of what I myself think does or doesn't matter, and some about your own ideas to consider! I didn't know the plants you drew off hand, but it would be fun to figure them out and then compare again with the vms drawings. I think you should make us guess them all, like Koen did with the Herb Paris!
I would love to see more of quire 13 drawings especially!
I am more than half tempted to recreate a part of your experiment for myself, half had it in my mind to do my own transcription of quire 13 to get a better feel of it, and to compare with all the others, I wonder how yours would compare also! Maybe the differences there can move us all forward somehow too. Thanks for the recommendation, i think i am going to try. Not sure my results will be able to hold a candle to yours, though, you did a great job!
Yeah, I tried to mimic the poses and expressions and outfits of the nymphs, while drawing them in my own style. It's kind of wild the range of expressions on the nymphs in the original - some of them look serene, others looks shocked, some look genuinely distressed.
Quire 13 and the rossette map are what I'm currently finishing up. I just added 100r and v to the folder - though I may rework those pages a bit this weekend.
Something I'm noticing while painting these pages - the way the color is applied to the plants is a little inconsistent. Sometimes just the root is painted, sometimes just the leaves. Almost never the stems. It's almost like a key to which part of the plant is being indicated? There is also an awful lot of blue being used - much more on leaves than in the rest of the book. Leaves me wondering if the color is an indication of something as well.
(09-07-2026, 01:57 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-07-2026, 11:58 PM)seridane Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm going to create a pdf or something of my entire document once I've got everything finished, scanned and formatted and I'm happy to share it.
Very nice!
A tip for scanning: to reduce the see-through in the image, try placing a black sheet behind the page.
The page will look darker this way, but you can fix that in post-processing.
All the best, --stolfi
Ok, that black paper thing worked brilliantly. Wow thankyou! Rescanning everything is going to be a pain but so worth it.