20-03-2017, 01:45 AM
Looks like I'm going to pay dearly for having grabbed the quickest example of something that looked vaguely like arches so there was something to start the discussion.
I haven't actually studied this page at all (except for some of the text). It just struck me that archways that were similar to calendrical arches might be a motif for information that could be displayed vertically, especially if it's one of those VMS pages that is especially repetitious (as some of the folios in this section are). I think it's possible that some sections of the manuscript may have information/lists/charts that would normally be set up a little differently than how they have been presented.
I haven't actually studied this page at all (except for some of the text). It just struck me that archways that were similar to calendrical arches might be a motif for information that could be displayed vertically, especially if it's one of those VMS pages that is especially repetitious (as some of the folios in this section are). I think it's possible that some sections of the manuscript may have information/lists/charts that would normally be set up a little differently than how they have been presented.