Sitting on a rainbow?

[RenegadeHealer]

R. Sale, I've been following your detective work in Burgundy with much interest. Whether or not the VMs has a direct connection to Duc Philippe le Bon, I think that looking into one of the most supportive patrons of the literary arts during the appropriate historical era is, at the very least, a reasonable source of indirect clues. It's likely that Philippe le Bon was one or two degrees of separation from someone involved in the creation of most central European manuscripts written in the early 1400s.

I don't have the art history background to offer any specific feedback, but I think your points regarding the Golden Fleece / Agnus Dei, the myth of Melusine, and the Oresme cosmos are well argued and deserve to be taken seriously.

That said, I think Linda has a good point: I don't think we have enough evidence to definitively conclude that Q13 depicts any rainbows. The images you posted that definitively do depict rainbows in contemporary artwork differ from all of the arc shapes in on VMS f82v in some non-trivial ways. I'm not saying that none of the latter are rainbows. But it's not at all obvious to me that they are rainbows.