f5v - a strange parallel

[MarcoP]

Hello Koen,
this vine illustration is also reproduced by Minta Collins in "Medieval Herbals, the Illustrative Traditions" (fig.29) - but in the book the page seems to have been accidentally mirror-imaged.

Collins writes that ms Ahmed III, Cod. 2127, Topkapi Museum Library, Istanbul, was created in 1228 by a scribe from Mosul. "A number of the plant illustrations are roughly copied from a model of the Alphabetical Herbal Recension ... Whereas the Vine may have been copied by the artist from another source, probably of Western or Byzantine origin, because it corresponds to no other representation in any of the Greek or Arabic Herbals examined so far".