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The point of all these manuscripts, written over a span of more than two centuries, is that they were written and illustrated somewhere in Italy, and show how Balsam was gained from trees in a walled city.
The earlier manuscripts, from Southern Italy, show rectangular crenelations on the walls, the 15th century copies that were made in Northern Italy show swallow-tail crenelations.
This detail is clearly not trying to reflect what Cairo looked like, but how the illustrator liked to draw walls and reflect his local environment.
I was thinking about doing the same and this saved me a considerable amount of work ...
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Quote:Edit: the link to the specific page in the Chigi MS is a bit more tricky to figure out:
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The point of all these manuscripts, written over a span of more than two centuries, is that they were written and illustrated somewhere in Italy, and show how Balsam was gained from trees in a walled city.
The earlier manuscripts, from Southern Italy, show rectangular crenelations on the walls, the 15th century copies that were made in Northern Italy show swallow-tail crenelations.
This detail is clearly not trying to reflect what Cairo looked like, but how the illustrator liked to draw walls and reflect his local environment.
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