(13-04-2016, 04:23 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I don't think it is methodologically correct to seek historic parallels for the VMS imagery in imagery only. The VMS imagery - at least in part - may be the author's own graphical interpretation of textual sources.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is, in my opinion, a good example - albeit, of course, provisional.
Anton, I don't disagree with that. This thread is more intended to perhaps reduce some of the myths surrounding the MS illustrations, whose 'unusual nature' are not rarely exaggerated.
I don't know if anyone has read Barlow's 1986 Cryptologia paper, which starts off with a fine example of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. :
Quote:The botanists say the botany is nonsense.
The astronomers say the astronomy is nonsense.
The astrologers say the astrology is nonsense.
... [five more lines deleted]
This sort of talk (though not primarily from Barlow) has surely contributed to a baised understanding of the MS.
In addition, I am hoping that this thread may bring up some really nice examples of unexpected contents in medieval MSS.