19-02-2017, 03:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 19-02-2017, 03:28 PM by Diane.
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JKP
I missed your comment till now about the star-or-floral shapes in medieval manuscripts. I think it is quite important to have some sort of time-line for cited examples since we need to be clear about lineage, and whether a given instance pre-dates, or post-dates the VMS.
But more to the point, I've found a blog-post which I've also linked at VViews site.
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The interesting thing is that the usual use for the 'asterisk' (whether or not in the flower-star form) was to mark text that had been omitted from the text, or from the original work copied.
It seems to me that this adds considerable weight to the suggestion in d'Imperio's book (whether her own suggestion or gained from someone else in the Friedman group) that the asterisked list is meant to connect with the calendar's star-flowers. Captions omitted because there was no room in the diagrams, maybe?
I do wish we had some more objective description than 'recipes folios' because there's no evidence to support the idea that they contain recipes at all. And the habit of supposing they relate to the 'roots and leaves' folio is just a habit. Like imagining that the plants are medicinal or the roots-and-leaves something to do with pharmaceutical medicine .. etc. But I guess we're stuck with these descriptions for now.
I missed your comment till now about the star-or-floral shapes in medieval manuscripts. I think it is quite important to have some sort of time-line for cited examples since we need to be clear about lineage, and whether a given instance pre-dates, or post-dates the VMS.
But more to the point, I've found a blog-post which I've also linked at VViews site.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
The interesting thing is that the usual use for the 'asterisk' (whether or not in the flower-star form) was to mark text that had been omitted from the text, or from the original work copied.
It seems to me that this adds considerable weight to the suggestion in d'Imperio's book (whether her own suggestion or gained from someone else in the Friedman group) that the asterisked list is meant to connect with the calendar's star-flowers. Captions omitted because there was no room in the diagrams, maybe?
I do wish we had some more objective description than 'recipes folios' because there's no evidence to support the idea that they contain recipes at all. And the habit of supposing they relate to the 'roots and leaves' folio is just a habit. Like imagining that the plants are medicinal or the roots-and-leaves something to do with pharmaceutical medicine .. etc. But I guess we're stuck with these descriptions for now.