Saint Barbara, baths, towers, and canons

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This is a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where she holds a cannon ball

Wow this is amazing, thank you! A great addition to the repertoire of meanings for "a figure holding a sphere"

I still think that the manuscript objects the VMS most closely resembles are the herbals/scientific miscellanies produced in medieval Europe even if there are also some non-European influences on the VMS as well.

This could be off-topic here, but I would love to know more of the non-European influences you spotted in the VMS!