Which things in the manuscript can be dated?

[-JKP-]

I have a draft blog dating back to March 16, 2016 that I simply cannot find time to finish. (I have 42 draft blogs, I'm wayyyyy behind. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do the research AND write it up, as well.)


So I'll post the related images here instead, without all the accompanying research...

It's my belief that the illustrator/painter of ÖNB Cod. 1842 may be the same one who painted the archers in one of the versions of the Baths of Pozzuoli.

Here is the illustrative style of the zodiac cycle. Look in particular at the green paint and pink ring around the archer, the way the faces and clothes are drawn, with darker outlines and slightly shaded fill:

   

Now look at the posture, the colors (using pink in this way is not especially common and it's a particular shade of pink combined in a certain way with green), and the style of drawing of the archers. These small figures are above the bathers in the Baths of Pozzuoli in Morgan G.74, which is thought to be from Italy, ca. 1400. If this is the same illustrator, then there might be a connection between approximate date (and approximate location, although this is less certain) with the zodiac in ÖNB 1842:

   


 (Also, in the Morgan manuscript there are lots of tents, arches under the bathing pools, a pond full of critters, and many other themes reminiscent of the VMS).


The background, origin, and dates of both these manuscripts are somewhat vague, but at least they are in the same general ballpark, datewise. However, if one is thought to be from Italy and one is thought to be from Prague, with neither one completely certain, then there may be some interesting background possibly connecting them.

And, of course, the reason I wanted to blog about it is because if there IS a connection, then we have one illustrator involved with two different themes (bathing and zodiacs) that may be connected in the VMS (plus it might help firm up the vague date for the crossbow).