10-08-2022, 07:20 AM
The problem with these illustrative identifications is the text. Does the text correspond to the illustration in some meaningful way? Or is the illustration just a decoration? Is there meaningful text in the VMs? And if so. where was it hidden, before it was cut out? Is it hidden by Stolfi's markers?
it is inconceivable to me that text and illustrations have no connection. it is obvious that someone made drawings of plants and added a text. the text should be similar to the texts in the known herbals with dependence on texts such as Plinius, Macer etc., but the authors own creation
I see a completely different problem: can one infer the rest of the ms. from the herbal text?
it is inconceivable to me that text and illustrations have no connection. it is obvious that someone made drawings of plants and added a text. the text should be similar to the texts in the known herbals with dependence on texts such as Plinius, Macer etc., but the authors own creation
I see a completely different problem: can one infer the rest of the ms. from the herbal text?