27-11-2022, 02:35 AM
There are now nine mss. under the Hagenau tag. Five originally provenanced as 'Hagenau, Germany' and now four more that are provenanced as 'Hagenau, France' - the "other" Hagenau.
There are some examples of "regular" clothing. Do these examples prove anything? They are dated into the 1440s - that's for the illustration.
The interpretive connections provided by these investigations are fairly strong, but it is not especially precise. There is good information in the data. The problem lies in the potential time lag between the 'event' and the illustration - even if that is only one or two decades. A person born c. 1400 could live past 1450.
The VMs has instead, based on its trickery and ambiguity, based on something that is not strong, but weak - and highly precise. That is the Golden Fleece dated after 1430. But given that the appearance is weak will fail, reinforcement is required. Reinforcement is found through pairing. Two examples of the fleece have been proposed. One is with the "mermaid" Melusine. Melusine and the Golden Fleece are connected through the Valois ancestry of the Duke of Burgundy. The Golden Fleece and the Agnus Dei of BNF Fr 13096 f. 18 are connected through the library of the Duke of Burgundy and by the similarity of their structural details. Problematic appearance is compensated and validated by structure in the VMs illustrations.
There are some examples of "regular" clothing. Do these examples prove anything? They are dated into the 1440s - that's for the illustration.
The interpretive connections provided by these investigations are fairly strong, but it is not especially precise. There is good information in the data. The problem lies in the potential time lag between the 'event' and the illustration - even if that is only one or two decades. A person born c. 1400 could live past 1450.
The VMs has instead, based on its trickery and ambiguity, based on something that is not strong, but weak - and highly precise. That is the Golden Fleece dated after 1430. But given that the appearance is weak will fail, reinforcement is required. Reinforcement is found through pairing. Two examples of the fleece have been proposed. One is with the "mermaid" Melusine. Melusine and the Golden Fleece are connected through the Valois ancestry of the Duke of Burgundy. The Golden Fleece and the Agnus Dei of BNF Fr 13096 f. 18 are connected through the library of the Duke of Burgundy and by the similarity of their structural details. Problematic appearance is compensated and validated by structure in the VMs illustrations.