9 Rosette Connecting Loops

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Maybe they are steam puffs or clouds.

They both look more like man-made items rather than natural forms like clouds.

In the Middle Ages, steam puffs and clouds were often not drawn like natural formations, they were drawn like cloudbands, curlicues, and other decorative motifs.

There are a number of things than can be represented by ringed shapes besides physical rings that are similar to jewelry.

I'm not arguing for any particular interpretation, I don't care what they turn out to be, I just think we have to remember that many things were represented symbolically in the Middle Ages.


Here's a celestial-directed calamity (earthquake) from the Book of Revelation.

Notice all the little dots, and how wind is represented by lines coming out of the mouths of faces (sometimes animal, sometimes humanoid). Also, how the hills are out of proportion to the people and bouncing around in the air. All of these oddities were common ways to draw things and looked normal to people in the Middle Ages:




Maybe the "rings" on the VMS rosettes folio are symbolic of transitional zones between physical and celestial spheres (or between one elemental representation and another) just as the cloudband is the transition zone between heaven and earth in the earthquake picture.