f82v: those rainbows

[davidjackson]

Vviews Here's another pair of "rainbows". Here they are used to illustrate Aristotelian categories.

Aristotle had 10 categories - that scribe only has eight colour bands. Did he run out of ink?   He didn't get them matching up, either.

I think it's important to use correct terminology here to see what we are looking for. In the 15/16th centuries (terminology mine and off the top of my head):

A pure rainbow would be a religious motif.

Colour bands usually depict the cosmos, the geo-centric model with the spheres above, and are usually shades of black and blue (because of the sky concept) ie:

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And then you have classification systems (which link concepts out to text) such as in VViews example above.

Any other I've missed?

I'd also point out that colour was often symbolical in its use - the colour was usually chosen for a reason, not because the scribe just liked it.