6 page fold out and earths "internal fires"

[Linda]

The rosettes seem to portray elements of a portolan map when the NW rosette is rotated to the be the SW position. 

I was trying to reconcile that with the TO map north, west east suns, and south position as identified by Diane. Then i was thinking about the the source of the Nile. 



Beside it is the psalter map. I dont know whether the vms creator could have seen it but they say it is a copy of another which was a copy of a matthew paris, perhaps some other copy or progenitor they saw could have included similar elements. Look at both the rivers coming from the tube at the top, which appears to be Arabia, and the origin of the Nile to the right, the one where the rivers spread out and come back together again. 

Other than looking like the imagery in the psalter map, i see in the vms a mountain throwing off sediment, attached to lines of mountain rivers, with a tube in the middle of it, then the bridge toward the rosette. This tells me that it is mountain runoff from a volcano which provides mineralization to make a lush garden of eden, which is what i think that rosette shows. But i thought it was supposed to be in Mesopotamia or Armenia so it didnt fit to me. 

But then i was looking at a map by Albertinus de Virga of Venice.

1409 Portolan



1411 to 1415 Mappa Mundi. Look at the big circle at the south tip of Africa. It is the Garden of Eden. I assume also the source of the Nile. 



1911 map of the Nile. Note that it originates from a lot of places. 



Source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, Lake Tana. From wiki,

The base of the island is scoriaceous lava in cubes, which are exposed all around the shore and washed by the waves, and identified as vesicular olivine basalt. On the top is a thin layer of red soil derived from the decay of the basalts.



So, there you have it, another ancient volcano.

The source of the White Nile, Lake Victoria, although it is fed by other rivers so it gets complicated.



Right bottom mountain peak is Kilimanjaro, a dormant volcano. The East African rift envelopes Lake Victoria. 

Lake Victoria last dried out about 17,300 years ago, and it refilled 14,700 years ago[20] as the African humid period began.[21]

Anyway i now have a means of reconciling those ideas. You cant get more south than that emblem is located. 


    

The source pointing to where the delta would be seems kind of poetic. A way to show what is not shown on the portolan version.