Do Herbal A and Herbal B correspond to differences in imagery?

[Koen G]

bravo Koen, Oocephalus and SamG!

To be honest all I did was find an old forum thread and spend too much time in Photoshop. But It's a fascinating subject so I wanted to put it in the spotlight. And it was a good opportunity to put Lisa's research on scribes to good use.

So the abundance of red in A may be the direct consequence of the abundance of colour codes in A. This is also a very simple explanation.

Sometimes the red paint is subtle though, or applied in such a way that it could not have covered any writing. Examples: f2v, f11v, f13r... Of course it is possible that the color annotations were scraped before the paint was applied to the desired surface. 

I agree that maybe some differences have not been noticed yet, and I'd like to find more. So far, everything we found still allows for the possibility that A adds certain things to the initial state of the drawings (whether this was originally intended or not), which B does not add. If we had something like "B plants are more central on the page" or "A plants have branched stems more often", we would be able to rule out more options.



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In case it might help someone, here is the spreadsheet I made for quickly checking language, hand, bifolio etc You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.