(05-02-2016, 11:00 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The pipes in the VMS often remind me of the pipes that were left over from the old Roman aqueducts which, I believe, were ceramic.
Thanks. I agree. I also thought the VMs pipes are water pipes - most of them appear on the page where the kidneys maybe represented - so I thought: kidneys - the human "water-pipes" system.
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The other place they appear is the calendar - the Piesces rosette - so I thought that the fallen barrels (water pipes?) may be the missing Aquarius (the water bearer)
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However, the VMs pipes have this dotted pattern and I can't find such water pipes.
The pipes in the German manuscript - is it possible they were used in the process of drying the saltpeter? Something that has holes to help vent?
(05-02-2016, 11:00 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The pipes in the VMS often remind me of the pipes that were left over from the old Roman aqueducts which, I believe, were ceramic.
Here is how the water supply pipes look in the same manuscript. They are colored the same as the dotted pipes - but no dots. How did they supply those castles in the Alps with water? Did they dig wells or had aqueducts?