19-09-2019, 11:51 PM
(04-02-2017, 09:51 AM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.One of the irritations of this manuscript is that we can't pin down a specific era or artistic tendency. In some ways it seems to be medieval; in others, Renaissance. Frankly, I would suggest that this is because it was created on the edge of two worlds, it is a book created in a Renaissance mindset but with medieval influences.
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This encapsulates how I feel about the VMS, although I don't find it to be an irritation. Quite the opposite, it's what motivates me to keep studying it.
If the VMS really was created in the early 15th century, whoever did it was ahead of his time and it might be historically important for a number of reasons.