27-07-2016, 11:48 PM
There is only one type of nebuly line in heraldry, to my knowledge, and that is the simple version.
Heraldry supplies a terminology to distinguish various decorative lines of division.
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Where the fancy bits come in is from artistic elaboration. The d' Oresme cosmos corresponds to the VMs illustration in Ellie's example. However the visual similarity would be even greater if the band of 'clouds and steam' from the central rosette illustration could be transposed to replace the plain nebuly line that the illustration displays. The combination of these two VMs elements would make the similarity with the d' Oresne illustration second to nothing I've seen so far. Though I'm certainly no authority. The VMs artist had the ability that the rosette pattern shows, but, in effect, decided to use a much plainer and more dissimilar version of a nebuly line. For the same reason that the strongest historical identification that VMs heraldry provides is found on the back side of an optical illusion. This says to me that the VMs is not a typical sort of expository text, not a straight forward setting forth of what the author wants the reader to know. Instead the text contains certain items that are seemingly set to test the would-be reader. Do the lines and patterns we see pass as generic, nameless designs? Or can they be named on the basis of a standard and traditional system of heraldry and then openly investigated?
Heraldry supplies a terminology to distinguish various decorative lines of division.
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Where the fancy bits come in is from artistic elaboration. The d' Oresme cosmos corresponds to the VMs illustration in Ellie's example. However the visual similarity would be even greater if the band of 'clouds and steam' from the central rosette illustration could be transposed to replace the plain nebuly line that the illustration displays. The combination of these two VMs elements would make the similarity with the d' Oresne illustration second to nothing I've seen so far. Though I'm certainly no authority. The VMs artist had the ability that the rosette pattern shows, but, in effect, decided to use a much plainer and more dissimilar version of a nebuly line. For the same reason that the strongest historical identification that VMs heraldry provides is found on the back side of an optical illusion. This says to me that the VMs is not a typical sort of expository text, not a straight forward setting forth of what the author wants the reader to know. Instead the text contains certain items that are seemingly set to test the would-be reader. Do the lines and patterns we see pass as generic, nameless designs? Or can they be named on the basis of a standard and traditional system of heraldry and then openly investigated?