In the hypothesis that the VM is a medical compendium, what is each section?
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I have my own thoughts on f76v. I have already written about it once on Nick. I no longer have the English version, but it works like this.
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When I look at this page, it tells a story, even if I don't understand the text.

1st picture top right. A person, probably male, is standing in a bin and scattering or receiving something. I think he/she is sowing something.  ( The sowing ).

2nd image. It looks like a cap or tent. I call it the nurture. This is the time when you protect the plants from weeds, pests ( slugs, aphids, birds ). Today you would probably use nets, greenhouses, chemicals, etc. Use chemicals, etc. Symbolically possible would be an umbrella or a hand.

3rd picture. She is holding something in her hand, pointing upwards. It looks like grain. I call this the harvest.

4th image. And again she is holding something in her hand, but now it is looking down. I know from experience that herbs or tobacco are dried hanging downwards. It is also interesting that she is standing in a kind of drain. As if it were saying, this is where the water has to go. It's also nice to see in old pharmacies how the bundles of herbs are hung up. I just call it drying.

5th picture. Here she is standing in a ???, I have no idea what it could be. But the person is lifting one leg, stretching her arms away from her body. It looks as if she is stamping something. Grapes and wine come to mind. It could be that she wants to crush something here. With grain she would have to beat it to separate the wheat from the chaff.

6th picture. A person, possibly with two baskets. I see something falling out of the baskets, in three different sizes. Are they using baskets as a kind of sieve? I think there is a separation here. Example: seeds, leaves, roots. More or less in this direction.
Here it should actually go on with the processing, like grinding, grating, cutting, chopping, etc.. This is the reason why I think the Quire has a wrong sequence.

If I look at picture 1. again, how he is standing like this in his barrel and sowing something, and associate these with planting ( plants ), the step to the signs of the zodiac and the seasons with the symbolism is not far. And when I think that he even clearly defined the beginning of spring in the book, the whole VM has a harmonious flow.

The original link to my data. It's all in German, but I'm sure it has some interesting details for some people.
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RE: In the hypothesis that the VM is a medical compendium, what is each section? - by Aga Tentakulus - 24-06-2021, 03:28 AM

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