Morten, one thing I agree upon is that for a manuscript with 400+ human figures, the VM shows very little signs of christian and by extension medieval cultural elements.
BUT that doesn't mean it must be American. It doesn't show any American cultural elements either.
What it does mean is that by some circumstance, relatively little references to a specific culture and religion have been included. Luckily there are exceptions which allow us to safely assign the creation of the MS to the exact period indicated by the radio carbon dating, most notably the dress of the human Zodiac figures.
I don't think the fact that over half the MS is about plants is a good argument. That the manuscript shows so few unambiguos signs of christianity and everyday medieval culture in its hundreds of human figures is excepional, and I am yet to see a decent parallel for this. But it doesnt show signs of American cultural elements either, so it cannot be used as an argument to support your claims. And there are some signs of medieval Europe, just not the amount we'd expet with this much human activity going on in the MS.
Funny side note: Tucker actually names the artist who drew the images in the VM, and he is mostly known for decorating churches with Christian scenes.
The sunflower is not a sunflower, its leaves are wrong. It is more likely a cereal crop.
BUT that doesn't mean it must be American. It doesn't show any American cultural elements either.
What it does mean is that by some circumstance, relatively little references to a specific culture and religion have been included. Luckily there are exceptions which allow us to safely assign the creation of the MS to the exact period indicated by the radio carbon dating, most notably the dress of the human Zodiac figures.
I don't think the fact that over half the MS is about plants is a good argument. That the manuscript shows so few unambiguos signs of christianity and everyday medieval culture in its hundreds of human figures is excepional, and I am yet to see a decent parallel for this. But it doesnt show signs of American cultural elements either, so it cannot be used as an argument to support your claims. And there are some signs of medieval Europe, just not the amount we'd expet with this much human activity going on in the MS.
Funny side note: Tucker actually names the artist who drew the images in the VM, and he is mostly known for decorating churches with Christian scenes.
The sunflower is not a sunflower, its leaves are wrong. It is more likely a cereal crop.