31-03-2019, 06:48 AM
(31-03-2019, 05:05 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are plants in Europe similar to corn. Around the time you claim the Cathars went to the New World, corn had smaller cobs, not big ones, they bred them bigger. I don't know how much the Spanish had to do with breeding it bigger or if it was done entirely by the natives, but it looked more like grain in the earlier days.
Though there may have been a depiction of a cob on one of the missing pages, the VMS as we have it does not display any cob, so we do not know from the VMS what the Mexican cob looked like in the late Middle Ages. The large cob depiction that I posted was published in 1597.
I have a question: Do the herbals of medieval Europe include fantasy plants like the VMS or do they primarily display plants that can be identified as real plants? This should help us to determine whether or not the VMS follows the western tradition in the field of herbals.
Currently, I view the herbal pages of the VMS only as a misdirection, to distract unwanted readers and steer them away from the sacred text that they wanted to protect.