26-04-2017, 09:03 PM
What I find interesting about this thread (proposing a possible link with physicians holding their varied piss observation pots aloft) is that the late fourteenth century was when the manuals on urinoscopy first became available translated from the Latin.
That is, one of these vernacular guides might be a good candidate for a plaintext block of the VMs' text.
What pre-1450 vernacular urinoscopy manuscripts are known? Do they tend to have a distinctive size / layout / structure? Do they tend to have distinctive drawings interleaved with the text?
That is, one of these vernacular guides might be a good candidate for a plaintext block of the VMs' text.
What pre-1450 vernacular urinoscopy manuscripts are known? Do they tend to have a distinctive size / layout / structure? Do they tend to have distinctive drawings interleaved with the text?