I used a simple python/OpenCv script to measure the horizontal position of plant illustrations. These are the result for folios 2-11 in the VMS (20 pages) and the first 17 plants from Padova Ar.26 plus the three illustrations with text I attached in the previous post. A value of 0 corresponds to the left margin, 100 to the right margin. The top and bottom 10% of images were ignored, so roots only have a moderate impact on the final result.
It's clear that in the Padova ms plants are always close to mid-page, while VMS illustrations have a strong preference to appear far from the centre, typically being closer to the right margin.
These two pictures show page borders (green) and plant position (purple) for all the pages I processed:
EDIT: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. shows images on the right-hand side of pages, but this arrangement is more systematic than in the VMS and text usually only appears left of images. Also, this manuscript has more text and less white space than the VMS and of course two plants are illustrated in most of the pages.
It's clear that in the Padova ms plants are always close to mid-page, while VMS illustrations have a strong preference to appear far from the centre, typically being closer to the right margin.
These two pictures show page borders (green) and plant position (purple) for all the pages I processed:
EDIT: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. shows images on the right-hand side of pages, but this arrangement is more systematic than in the VMS and text usually only appears left of images. Also, this manuscript has more text and less white space than the VMS and of course two plants are illustrated in most of the pages.
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