27-11-2018, 09:37 PM
(27-11-2018, 03:06 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Are you 100% certain that your Photoshop is not enhancing a stalk reflecting through the page from f17v?
I do not know why you are suddenly becoming so devious. You are undoubtedly aware that there is no other instance where the page numbering comes into contact with page content. This makes it all the more the likely that the shield (disguised as a fleur de lys flower) is marginalia.
Determining what overwrites what should be a matter of elementary forensics, resolvable with nothing more than a good magnifying glass. Can anyone in this forum gain brief access to the VMS?
When you get to know me you'll find that I'm not devious at all. It's not part of my nature. If I were, I wouldn't be on the forum. I would be quietly trying to solve this on my own and not sharing my findings.
I did not know that there is no other instance where the page numbering comes into contact with page content. I have studied the shapes of the folio numbers quite extensively but I have not looked for overlaps. It's a big manuscript, there are zillions of details. It's impossible to study all of them, so I chose a few areas in which I am particularly interested and I focus on those. I've barely looked at the "biological" section compared to the plants and zodiac figures and I haven't really studied overlaps yet except for the text between the legs of the zodiac figures (there are many different kinds of overlaps in the VMS, some of them probably worth studying).