28-03-2021, 08:37 PM
I see this as a smaller area depicted than f85r2, which in my interpretation was Azov at the top, Burgundy to the left, Spain to the bottom and the entire Italian Peninsula to the right, and which discussed travel directions via water routes available between them.
I think this one does the same thing, but uses pointing arms instead of water spouts (which both stand in for waterways), and depicts a smaller general area, more in keeping with the rosette with the TO map attached to it, which has the Alps as basically central to that world.
To me it says the one at the top (east in my opinion) (i am thinking Black Sea area, Danube Delta specifically) can reach where the one on the left (north, or Burgundy) and the one at the bottom (west, or France & Spain) meet, (this would be the Danube to the Rhine route, which makes north anything above the Rhine delta.)
France or Spain can reach Italy by travelling east. I see the orb as being indicative of wealth and power, possibly related to Cosimo de Medici.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. It might also be related to the Council of Florence, because the one with the orb is not going anywhere, not pointing at anyone, just holding the orb, so they seem to be hosting an event, and others are shown the way to get there from their respective locations.
The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449. It was convoked as the Council of Basel by Pope Martin V shortly before his death in February 1431 and took place in the context of the Hussite wars in Bohemia and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. (it was moved in 1438 to Ferrara and January 1439 to Florence).
The rise of the Ottoman Empire is i think the reason for the obfuscation we see in the manuscript. It is about preserving information without giving away knowledge to those they might want to keep it from.
However the upper (east) one cannot go directly to the orb but must travel through a complex of seas and rivers before reaching the Italian Peninsula, so the arm points around and not to the figure on the right directly.
Similarly, France would have to go around and up the coastline to get any further north than the Rhine delta so it does not point directly at Burgundy but around it.
I think this one does the same thing, but uses pointing arms instead of water spouts (which both stand in for waterways), and depicts a smaller general area, more in keeping with the rosette with the TO map attached to it, which has the Alps as basically central to that world.
To me it says the one at the top (east in my opinion) (i am thinking Black Sea area, Danube Delta specifically) can reach where the one on the left (north, or Burgundy) and the one at the bottom (west, or France & Spain) meet, (this would be the Danube to the Rhine route, which makes north anything above the Rhine delta.)
France or Spain can reach Italy by travelling east. I see the orb as being indicative of wealth and power, possibly related to Cosimo de Medici.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. It might also be related to the Council of Florence, because the one with the orb is not going anywhere, not pointing at anyone, just holding the orb, so they seem to be hosting an event, and others are shown the way to get there from their respective locations.
The Council of Florence is the seventeenth ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church, held between 1431 and 1449. It was convoked as the Council of Basel by Pope Martin V shortly before his death in February 1431 and took place in the context of the Hussite wars in Bohemia and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. (it was moved in 1438 to Ferrara and January 1439 to Florence).
The rise of the Ottoman Empire is i think the reason for the obfuscation we see in the manuscript. It is about preserving information without giving away knowledge to those they might want to keep it from.
However the upper (east) one cannot go directly to the orb but must travel through a complex of seas and rivers before reaching the Italian Peninsula, so the arm points around and not to the figure on the right directly.
Similarly, France would have to go around and up the coastline to get any further north than the Rhine delta so it does not point directly at Burgundy but around it.