18-03-2018, 12:21 AM
Basically what JKP says. Often when images are similar but diverge in ways that cannot be attributed to copyists' error or simplification, they derive from a common source or source family. We have no way of telling what was the case here.
Even if two medieval images are identical, you can't say for sure whether they were copied from each other or a third manuscript. Unless of course you can show that ms A was present at the time and place ms B was made.
Hence, in the case of the VM, one must in theory remain agnostic about such questions.
Even if two medieval images are identical, you can't say for sure whether they were copied from each other or a third manuscript. Unless of course you can show that ms A was present at the time and place ms B was made.
Hence, in the case of the VM, one must in theory remain agnostic about such questions.
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