(09-04-2018, 04:03 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was wondering if the blank rectangle at the beginning of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. might have been left for a "weirdo" capital letter that was never painted. Similar empty rectangles are not too rare in XV century manuscripts.
Yes. And even though I don't like making too many assumptions, I've been assuming that's exactly what it is, space for an embellished initial.
Combined with other small clues (like the state of the small-plants section), it gives me the feeling the VMS was never finished. Given that plague raged through the western world several times in the 14th and 15th centuries and also that rulers who commissioned works often died unexpectedly for other reasons, there are a multitude of unfinished works out there in manuscript-land.