Those umbrella/pinecone things

[Linda]

This pattern depicting clouds is hard to find in medieval imagery. I just found this on Nick Pelling's blog: saints in heaven.


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Leone Otasso and His Wife Presenting Their Sick Son to Saints Aimo and Vermondo; A Crowd of Lay Worshippers Giving Thanks
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Interesting example, the first one looks like water, the second one looks like a cross between what i call mountains, and rainbow river systems. 

Perhaps they indicate a firmament rather than a cloud.

Do you know the significance of the wands the saints are holding?

The undulating cloud bands were also sometimes used to show sacred things or people, or to indicate people from the past or from mythology, but i take the ones in quire 13 to be far more literal clouds. 

Here is a more literal usage of the bands as the sky or perhaps the firmament



However in quire 14 i see it as indicating and combining various beliefs, some tangentially due to their mythologic basis, a way of incorporating ideas with places, perhaps.