13-08-2022, 10:28 PM
The original list is in Post #1. Have there been any 'official' additions?
I found the costmary ID in an old ninja post by E. Velinska. With the new information to interpret the plant's flaring roots as the wings of Saint Michael from Juan_Sali, and having the French name for this plant, Herbe Sainte-Marie, the necessary pieces are in place to see this VMs image as a subtle replication of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. So, if that interpretation of the illustration is valid, the plant identification is fixed.
It's a situation much like the identification of the VMs critter of f80v. The critter, on its own, had half a dozen identities. Only when the other elements in the illustration were brought into play, could a more solid identification be demonstrated. In that case, the meandering line was named in heraldry as a *nebuly* line. And the nebuly line was shown to function as a cosmic boundary. What animal was associated with a cosmic boundary? An Agnus Dei. Just like BNF Fr. 13096 f18.
Progress is a process of rediscovery.
I found the costmary ID in an old ninja post by E. Velinska. With the new information to interpret the plant's flaring roots as the wings of Saint Michael from Juan_Sali, and having the French name for this plant, Herbe Sainte-Marie, the necessary pieces are in place to see this VMs image as a subtle replication of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. So, if that interpretation of the illustration is valid, the plant identification is fixed.
It's a situation much like the identification of the VMs critter of f80v. The critter, on its own, had half a dozen identities. Only when the other elements in the illustration were brought into play, could a more solid identification be demonstrated. In that case, the meandering line was named in heraldry as a *nebuly* line. And the nebuly line was shown to function as a cosmic boundary. What animal was associated with a cosmic boundary? An Agnus Dei. Just like BNF Fr. 13096 f18.
Progress is a process of rediscovery.