The Rosettes Page - March 2024

[Mark Knowles]

To me the idea that someone paid for a particularly large piece of vellum for the purpose of producing an essentially meaningless drawing seems to make no sense given the practical purpose that most of the manuscript seems to have. Why couldn't the author have used a normal sized page for the drawing if the details weren't important? There are a lot of specific details on the page and I suggest that they have a meaning. Many people either don't notice those specific details or choose to ignore them.