01-10-2020, 07:12 AM
That the medieval world was a world of symbolism is pretty obvious. I don't think there was any kind of decoration without symbolic meaning. The most common decoration in the margins of the manuscripts, the vine leaf, alludes to the wine and blood of Christ.
This kind of cogwheel of the Tratado de Astrologia is an iconographic variant of the cloud band that we see in so many manuscripts. For example in Oresme's illustration, Rosette folio of the Voynich and also f68v3.
It is misnamed band of clouds because they are not clouds but the last sphere of the cosmos before the kingdom of God and the angels. It is the sphere of the stars.
This kind of cogwheel of the Tratado de Astrologia is an iconographic variant of the cloud band that we see in so many manuscripts. For example in Oresme's illustration, Rosette folio of the Voynich and also f68v3.
It is misnamed band of clouds because they are not clouds but the last sphere of the cosmos before the kingdom of God and the angels. It is the sphere of the stars.