25-03-2020, 08:30 PM
I'm going to move this to imagery.
That's usually my line of thinking as well.
In the cases offered by Mark, I especially suspect something fishy is going on in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - the things at the ends of the leaves look like falling towers. (In medieval imagery, collapsing towers are often part of scenes where a city is obliterated). I have spent some time pondering this folio in the past.
These are all images of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the first ones that come up in google. I selected this particular scene for reasons that would take us too far from the core of this thread.
There's actually some precedent for this opinion. Ellie Velinska proposes Carlina vulgaris in her You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - an ID which understandably ignores the things at the end of the leaves. She does add that the "six leaves in the VMs drawing end with symbols that somewhat remind of the six 'towers' in the center of the Nine-rosette page."
(25-03-2020, 04:58 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think that the things on the ends of the leaves are not necessarily plant parts but something else. It's a composition, so to speak. This is also clear for example on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. .
That's usually my line of thinking as well.
In the cases offered by Mark, I especially suspect something fishy is going on in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - the things at the ends of the leaves look like falling towers. (In medieval imagery, collapsing towers are often part of scenes where a city is obliterated). I have spent some time pondering this folio in the past.
These are all images of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the first ones that come up in google. I selected this particular scene for reasons that would take us too far from the core of this thread.
There's actually some precedent for this opinion. Ellie Velinska proposes Carlina vulgaris in her You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - an ID which understandably ignores the things at the end of the leaves. She does add that the "six leaves in the VMs drawing end with symbols that somewhat remind of the six 'towers' in the center of the Nine-rosette page."