28-04-2017, 01:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-04-2017, 02:04 AM by Diane.
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Very interesting to see another manuscript in which imagery akin to some of the VMS botanical images appears.
Looks as if its sources were better known, and better regarded than we thought.
Thanks to Rene for bringing that late fourteenth century German ms to notice.
- and to Koen for commenting on that part of the text; obviously this fits perfectly with other evidence from the VMS.
I think I'd now like to go on record, formally, as saying that I think our present ms very probably gained from earlier works kept in the library at Padua, one of the few universities in Europe which accepted both Christian and Jew. Until now, writing online, I've been content to speak more generally of the Veneto.
Looks as if its sources were better known, and better regarded than we thought.
Thanks to Rene for bringing that late fourteenth century German ms to notice.
- and to Koen for commenting on that part of the text; obviously this fits perfectly with other evidence from the VMS.
I think I'd now like to go on record, formally, as saying that I think our present ms very probably gained from earlier works kept in the library at Padua, one of the few universities in Europe which accepted both Christian and Jew. Until now, writing online, I've been content to speak more generally of the Veneto.