9 Rosette Connecting Loops

[Mark Knowles]

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.

I have attached an image highlighting in pink the two dots that I am referring to. There appears to have been a very deliberate choice to draw those two dots, which is why I have suggested screws or nails or jewels or something else.