Yes, sorry, I misspoke and didn't distinguish between the trees and the women in the way I said it (I was still thinking about the more usual ways of depicting it).
If this is a drawing of the virtues in the VMS, in the same general vein as the women and trees, then it increases the likelihood that the illustrator didn't want to be too overt about it—that the drawings are, in fact, encoded. There is the idea of trees, but no actual trees, and the idea of water being dispensed in association with the nymphs, but integrated with the "tree" shapes, not entirely separate from them.
I was wondering why I hadn't seen this manuscript before. I've been through every manuscript on the e-codices site at least twice... but then I noticed that it was recently digitized. I've been so busy catching up on the Polonsky project that I had completely missed it.
I think it's an excellent find.
If this is a drawing of the virtues in the VMS, in the same general vein as the women and trees, then it increases the likelihood that the illustrator didn't want to be too overt about it—that the drawings are, in fact, encoded. There is the idea of trees, but no actual trees, and the idea of water being dispensed in association with the nymphs, but integrated with the "tree" shapes, not entirely separate from them.
I was wondering why I hadn't seen this manuscript before. I've been through every manuscript on the e-codices site at least twice... but then I noticed that it was recently digitized. I've been so busy catching up on the Polonsky project that I had completely missed it.
I think it's an excellent find.