f28v imagery

[Linda]

Mmm, dragon fruit

That's risky territory though. Columbus founded the first European settlement on Hispaniola more than half a century after the dating of the VM vellum. Additionally, the fruit only became known as dragon fruit in Asian languages, after it had been exported there. So without going into detail, this would require the VM vellum to have been inscribed centuries after it had been made...

I realized that a little late, but you never know, they might have been told the translation of its indigenous name, I can think of all sorts of things called "dragon something" that all have spikes. regardless I thought it was freaky when what looked like negative space to me at first then looked like a spike when I thought it was a cactus.

what do you think of the eclipse idea though?