02-05-2019, 04:47 PM
(02-05-2019, 07:34 AM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the double page number 110, you can see well in the margins this kind of pine cones. They are like the ripples or undulationes that we see, par example, in Nicole Oresme's Livre du Ciel et du monde, but it is as if the author wanted to represent the ripples in perspective, in space.
It is a form of representation similar to that of the VMS. You can even guess where the famous armadillo came from.
On the page 88 there is an image of the sphere curdled with stars. At the poles you can see tubes like in the VMS. They are the tubes used by the stars to go down to Earth
Thank you for the page numbers, the manuscript is quite interesting, thanks for pointing it out.
However, to me this does not resemble the pine cones, it just seems to be embellishment of the chart, which seems pretty scientific to me, i dont think the embellishment is meant to add to the portrayal, i take it as decoration. At best it may be an indication of the unknown, or spiritual realm outside the reality portrayed, whereas in the vms it does not seem to be decoration, but representative of something specific which intereacts with the other parts of the imagery. I dont believe in the armadillo, nor do i see it in this page.
On page 88 i think the tube things are indications of the first point of aries and the first point of libra, these mark the spring and fall equinox respectively, i don't thing star tube travelling is implied at all, instead it shows that the sun can be seen at specific points on these days, that it aligns with the celestial equator at these times, perhaps seen through tubes, or other openings in architecture from earth.
I do find the map on page 32 extra interesting due to Ceuta's portrayal.

