9 Rosette - Specific Details

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I would say that they could actually be towers ( in the heavenly Jerusalem ). For comparison, here is a illustration in Liber Floridus:

I think they are towers (in the Visconti Hours). I was referring to how they were drawn. The style of the towers (the upper part) is similar to the style of of chess pieces in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, moreso than the way other artists drew towers. Chess was a popular game among the nobility. One often sees it in marginal drawings.


The top parts are also similar in style to some of the Jewish spice boxes (but without the flag):



Image courtesy of Sothebys' Steinhardt Judaica Collection

Real towers did not have such narrow "throats" as one sees in the Visconti drawings.