[split] Those Scribbles

[Linda]

I don't know if the circle in the middle of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is considered as part of these so called "scribbles", but I had to revive this old thread to share this diagram I found in a version of La Sfera that was shared by Koen G in another thread (f21, link below)

I don't know if this pattern of diagram was typical in MS of the time. Maybe it is unimportant, but I'll share here it regardless.

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Yes i think that is a relevant pattern. Do you see the comparison with the other map on that page? The Mediterranean is like the vertical part of the T, the red sea or the Nile beside it would be one half of the horizontal, the Aegean/black sea/don river would be the other side. However the copy you posted is printed so is a later version.

Here is another version of that page, also a later version. There are many others. 



Contrast that with todays understanding, which includes a larger area. The smaller area was the ecumene of that time, or at least relatively recent, given people had already been to China. However the one on that page, as with the cosmos one at least, are inverted TO's which may mean they are not the Asia africa europe denotation but  water, earth, and inhabited earth, the latter being the ecumene of the time, which together is a larger view of the world. Or perhaps it is meant to be both, if you turn it, you can time travel a bit...the tilt reminds me of precession, another form of time travel, or time keeping of a long period. 

I don't know if it has to do with the scribbles though. I also think it is two lines of scribbles, not a shape. This might have been the outer back page of the quire when folded, from before being bound, which might be why it is extra dirty and has the scribbles, just like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the last page of quire 8, and same thing might have happened to both. Seems to be WS or VS or VR or WR over and over, on both.