Hey Koen, you're sitting on a goldmine, over there. Time to start digging. I had some difficulties to start with. It seemed like when I came back on different days, that the items were in a different order, which made for some difficulty in sorting things out. It was like the garden of shifting manuscripts, investigating one I'd seen the week before, or confusing two with the same title. For the last week or so the sequence seems more stable.
On the other hand, a Google search of the pages for 'Christine' will pull a dozen or so items, many of which are sparse in the image department. If there is only one image, it is generally a presentation, so not much to see. The real beauty is MS 9392, lots of illustrations, but made in 1460 in Lille. Still need to look at it more carefully, but sort of have the feeling that it's gone past "VMs" time.
I've been chasing cloud-bands, looking at all the varieties of cosmic boundaries. When I saw the bathing Muses in MS 10983, something just said "VMs". And besides, there is the whole, Paris - cloud-band - Oresme thing and de Pizan is part of that. It is now clear that de Pizan made it to the Burgundy library in force and other Parisian influences along with hers. Remember that the Anglo-Burgundian alliance kept the French forces out of Paris between 1420 and 1435.
I know that a lot of balneological comparisons have been made, but what were the results? What do you - or anyone - think is the best medieval source illustration to compare with the VMs bathers?
On the other hand, a Google search of the pages for 'Christine' will pull a dozen or so items, many of which are sparse in the image department. If there is only one image, it is generally a presentation, so not much to see. The real beauty is MS 9392, lots of illustrations, but made in 1460 in Lille. Still need to look at it more carefully, but sort of have the feeling that it's gone past "VMs" time.
I've been chasing cloud-bands, looking at all the varieties of cosmic boundaries. When I saw the bathing Muses in MS 10983, something just said "VMs". And besides, there is the whole, Paris - cloud-band - Oresme thing and de Pizan is part of that. It is now clear that de Pizan made it to the Burgundy library in force and other Parisian influences along with hers. Remember that the Anglo-Burgundian alliance kept the French forces out of Paris between 1420 and 1435.
I know that a lot of balneological comparisons have been made, but what were the results? What do you - or anyone - think is the best medieval source illustration to compare with the VMs bathers?