19-10-2018, 09:43 AM
I tend to have more ideas than time to put them into practice.
One of them was (is) to make a matrix of the various sections in the MS (based on illustration type), and for each combination (e.g. zodiac vs biological) find indications for a common 'artist'.
I have the feeling that many (but not all) of the cells of the triangular matrix can be filled in with some observations.
The correspondence indicated above would match cosmological vs biological, on the basis of a detail.
Whether or not that is significant is of course a question, but this could be addressed at the end, when the matrix has been filled in.
I am of course aware of the argument of JKP that there are indications of a second 'artist', which would also have to be addressed.
There are plenty of examples of scholarly analyses of this nature, and it is not unusual that one or the other 'hand' only has a minor contribution.
One of them was (is) to make a matrix of the various sections in the MS (based on illustration type), and for each combination (e.g. zodiac vs biological) find indications for a common 'artist'.
I have the feeling that many (but not all) of the cells of the triangular matrix can be filled in with some observations.
The correspondence indicated above would match cosmological vs biological, on the basis of a detail.
Whether or not that is significant is of course a question, but this could be addressed at the end, when the matrix has been filled in.
I am of course aware of the argument of JKP that there are indications of a second 'artist', which would also have to be addressed.
There are plenty of examples of scholarly analyses of this nature, and it is not unusual that one or the other 'hand' only has a minor contribution.