15thc perception on swallowtail merlons?

[Koen G]

What's also holding me back is that this manuscript is not original, it is from the Rupertsberg Scivias, which is lost and only known from old black and white pictures. So this is a color reproduction based on those pictures.

Fortunately, for posterity, in 1925 photographs of the original Scivias manuscript were taken as part of a series of exhibitions in Cologne. In addition, in 1933, a duplicate manuscript was created and stored safely at the Abbey of St. Hildegard in Eibingen. Today, the duplicate remains at the abbey, the same place where four Benedictine nuns inspired by Hildegard dutifully produced it.

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When it comes to a detail like this, it might be better to refer to the 1925 photographs, since only those show the medieval work.