F82r as the Black Sea

[Linda]

Quite an interesting comparison of the water shapes in the VMS and the water ways in Europe and Asia.

Thank you, Monica  

Ptolemy style maps became popular in the later 15th century, but they were rediscovered and started to be translated into Latin in 1406 in Florence, i believe, so that does fall into the timeline for those in the business, if not for the public at large. 


It seems to me that many of the vms waterbodies seem better drawn than most maps to that point in time, especially the Caspian Sea, of which the vms version seems to me the best drawing until the 18th century, and as you can see the Ptolemy version looks nothing like it, nor does the Ptolemy Sea of Azov, even if it is backwards in the vms.

Not only this, but every sea, including various smaller seas and gulfs that make up the Mediterranean, and many of the largest lakes and rivers are also covered, with none missing except perhaps the Baltic, insofar as an actual waterbody being drawn for it, although i think it does get a nymph assigned to it, on the upper part of f82r. I think there is still some obfuscation going on re sizing, direction, and placement, but for the most part i find there are too many specific correlations for it not to be considered a possibility that quire 13 is about the waterways of the world.