01-09-2019, 11:13 PM
Liber Floridus is one of my favorite manuscripts. I think I've used examples from it in five different blogs. I keep coming back to it.
In the Gallia version there is a long-necked Taurus with very long horns (reminiscent of the long neck on the VMS bull):
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I also mentioned it in the Mappa mundae blog when discussing the mountainy structures on the VMS map due to the interesting textures, and the blog about numerals.
I think maybe the reason it comes up so often (it's available in a few different versions) is because it is a book of knowledge, and my feeling has been for a very long time that the VMS may have been intended as a book of knowledge.
In the Gallia version there is a long-necked Taurus with very long horns (reminiscent of the long neck on the VMS bull):
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I also mentioned it in the Mappa mundae blog when discussing the mountainy structures on the VMS map due to the interesting textures, and the blog about numerals.
I think maybe the reason it comes up so often (it's available in a few different versions) is because it is a book of knowledge, and my feeling has been for a very long time that the VMS may have been intended as a book of knowledge.