25-03-2016, 03:31 PM
I agree with Khoen Gh.'s remarks. Many scenes in the quire seem to point to conflictual relations between the "nymphs".
This one on the top left of 80r looks like she's about to stab the other one with her spindle/dagger/whatever that is:
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I think that the similarity with Christian iconography may be only superficial, and perhaps even intended to make the document "pass" for such a text. Looks like baptism, looks like a cross, looks like cleansing, nothing weird going on here at all, inquisition censors, move along.
I mean, why encipher a document about baptism and cleansing?
This one on the top left of 80r looks like she's about to stab the other one with her spindle/dagger/whatever that is:
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I think that the similarity with Christian iconography may be only superficial, and perhaps even intended to make the document "pass" for such a text. Looks like baptism, looks like a cross, looks like cleansing, nothing weird going on here at all, inquisition censors, move along.
I mean, why encipher a document about baptism and cleansing?