Possibility of Hail in the Middle Right Rosette

[Linda]

I believe the hail is a good possibility of what was meant to be portrayed.

I think of this rosette as showing not sky, but water. The detail with the three lines motif speaks to me of volcanic activity, seismic faults. There is often hail associated with volcanic eruptions. 



The "fish tails" can be seen as tidal waves resulting from an island eruption, stopped in time just after the eruption triggers them, a parting of the seas. The central motif seems floral or decorative, but can be seen to resemble this island:


The second is a drawing of how they figure it looked at the time of the Minoan eruption.

As such it could be the story of Thera, Santorini, Atlantis...Venice had suzerainty in the 14th century. The stories are included in various classical writings. The Chinese recorded it. Tree rings in California show when it happened. It was a big deal. 

Thus the hail-ash combo covered any land in the vicinity. 100 cubic kilometres of tephra. As the vms seems interested in various forms of rock and the formation thereof over time, (turn the rosettes over to see examples) this subject would certainly seem to be of interest.



In terms of apocalypse, i think this fits as an example of the type of thing that is predicted to befall at end times. They also say that the Biblical plagues in Egypt were possibly triggered by this event in reality also. So to me this not only shows a location but its geologic history, and evokes social history from this point forward, hence the mythological and biblical ideas denoted by the cloud bands, which could double as the ash cloud from whence the hail came, which brings us back to apocalypse, but in a very real way. It also resembles depictions of Judgement Day overall in other manuscripts such as the Holkham Bible of 1330 andmay therefore be meant to invoke same.