04-01-2021, 11:07 PM
It is intentionally cluttered with images and threads of this and that. Whether things are hidden or not depends on what an investigator knows or can discover that is historically valid. Heraldry is an example. Heraldic science was quite significant throughout Europe and well beyond the VMs C-14 time period. However, the potential heraldry in the VMs appears to be insignificant if it is noticed at all. That is a mistake. Intentionally cluttered images provide places for more significant images to hide.
The intentional use of altered and combined images prevents single source identification. The VMs cosmos provides the most prominent example. Connections based of structural similarity to posthumous illustrations for texts by Oresme and de Metz can be seen. And those connections are provided, not by the authors of the texts, but by the provenance of their production. BNF Fr. 565 dated c 1410 in Pars; Harley 334 dated 1430-1440 in Paris. And this just *happens* to occur in the VMs C14 time frame.
A number of topics recently discussed here have a "substantial opportunity for existence" in this same time frame. Yes there is a fair degree of ambiguity, which easily occurs from a number of potential sources. However there is also accumulating evidence that the illustrations reveal a knowledgeable familiarity with events that would have occurred during this same C-14 period.
Historically, after Agincourt (1415), the English expanded their control of the north of France, and in alliance with the Duchy of Burgundy from 1419, held control of Paris from 1420 to 1435. Other VMs illustrations have been interpreted as occurring during this time period including specific references to the Golden Fleece, which originated in 1430, in the Duchy of Burgundy.
Just recently, there was the suggestion that VMs Virgo was a *combined* illustration with certain added similarities to illustrations of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon. This interpretation was potentially supplemented by the discovery of an added illustration. The provenance of that illustration (MS M.46) is Ghent c. 1420. Again within the C-14 dates when Ghent was part of the Duchy of Burgundy. So this would be another example of historical provenance that makes the same historical connections with the early part of the golden age of Burgundy under Philip the Good.
The intentional use of dual interpretations for the heraldry on VMs White Aries is a clear confirmation of trickery. The VMs is a puzzle. Whether or not it can be solved, not to mention its damaged condition, is something that remains undetermined.
The intentional use of altered and combined images prevents single source identification. The VMs cosmos provides the most prominent example. Connections based of structural similarity to posthumous illustrations for texts by Oresme and de Metz can be seen. And those connections are provided, not by the authors of the texts, but by the provenance of their production. BNF Fr. 565 dated c 1410 in Pars; Harley 334 dated 1430-1440 in Paris. And this just *happens* to occur in the VMs C14 time frame.
A number of topics recently discussed here have a "substantial opportunity for existence" in this same time frame. Yes there is a fair degree of ambiguity, which easily occurs from a number of potential sources. However there is also accumulating evidence that the illustrations reveal a knowledgeable familiarity with events that would have occurred during this same C-14 period.
Historically, after Agincourt (1415), the English expanded their control of the north of France, and in alliance with the Duchy of Burgundy from 1419, held control of Paris from 1420 to 1435. Other VMs illustrations have been interpreted as occurring during this time period including specific references to the Golden Fleece, which originated in 1430, in the Duchy of Burgundy.
Just recently, there was the suggestion that VMs Virgo was a *combined* illustration with certain added similarities to illustrations of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon. This interpretation was potentially supplemented by the discovery of an added illustration. The provenance of that illustration (MS M.46) is Ghent c. 1420. Again within the C-14 dates when Ghent was part of the Duchy of Burgundy. So this would be another example of historical provenance that makes the same historical connections with the early part of the golden age of Burgundy under Philip the Good.
The intentional use of dual interpretations for the heraldry on VMs White Aries is a clear confirmation of trickery. The VMs is a puzzle. Whether or not it can be solved, not to mention its damaged condition, is something that remains undetermined.