15-09-2017, 09:45 PM
That form of hatching started to show up in the very late 15th century and early 16th century. It wasn't common, but it was starting to emerge.
I think it's possible it's from the 17th or 18th centuries. Drawing styles had changed dramatically a century after the VMS was made and many of them have a fairly contemporary look.
But I am puzzled as to why the person drawing it didn't try to represent it more exactly. Perhaps it was a way of saying, okay, this is generally how it looks, can you make anything of it? do you recognize it? do you think you can decode it? before taking a more significant step (like handing over more of the manuscript). Like a trial run?
I think it's possible it's from the 17th or 18th centuries. Drawing styles had changed dramatically a century after the VMS was made and many of them have a fairly contemporary look.
But I am puzzled as to why the person drawing it didn't try to represent it more exactly. Perhaps it was a way of saying, okay, this is generally how it looks, can you make anything of it? do you recognize it? do you think you can decode it? before taking a more significant step (like handing over more of the manuscript). Like a trial run?