(04-07-2019, 03:33 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.With respect to David's questions:
Quote:I would like to know more about the assertion
Quote: The clothes worn by the figures in the zodiac are typical for the 1420’s and would be unknown even a few decades later
I believe I gave the source in Koen's thread about finding similar garments in online manuscripts.
Hi Rene,
after a good deal of searching, I found You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the "Gemini from wedding imagery" thread.
ReneZ wrote:In an unpublished report, in 2014 a curator of the Morgan library was asked to state an opinion about the costumes in the MS. He stated that this is usually a good indicator, because MS illustrations would represent the actual habits, and not those of more than 20 years in the past (or future Smile ).
He pointed to 1420, but I don't know on which pages this was based.
The wide sleeves also seen with Virgo seem quite characteristic to me, and I remember a blog entry about this a few years ago.
As an avenue of attack, this seems to be as good as any.
Is this the post you were referring to? Is there any hope that this report will be published at some time?