28-04-2024, 08:06 PM
One of the "best threads we have to pull on", eh? My gracious, it's ten years old! Pull on it, already.
Rene said this today in another thread: "Little by little, the evidence turned up and we got a more and more complete picture."
Sometimes little by little occurs with a tectonic nature. Sometimes nothing happens for a long time, then all of a sudden... The discovery by E. Velinska was one of those events <IMHO>. The original posting also included a cosmic diagram from Harley 334 with some interesting similarities. Harley 334 also has an illustration of a mermaid and 'friends' similar to the VMs.
BNF Fr. 565 has ties of provenance to Oresme, to Jean de Berry and to Paris c. 1410. The structure of the cosmos is atypical. There are no planetary or heavenly spheres. Harley 334 (Paris, 2nd Qtr. 15th) shows that this cosmic structure has a Parisian connection during the C-14 dates.
The VMs cosmos clearly looks different. Starting with the central Earth, it is apparent that this part of the VMs depiction is not pictorial. The representation has undergone a code shift from pictorial to linguistic. The inverted T-O structure remains, but any chance of visual similarity is out the window. And that is a useful concept because it works elsewhere as well. The artist has intentionally manipulated appearance, in the stars and in the cosmic boundary / cloud band. In the VMs cosmic cloud band, the 43 undulations of ''565" ambiguously play hide and see between the intersecting, curved spokes from a version of Shirakatsi's wheel (Eight Phases of the Moon). And this part of the deal as weel - ambiguity. The artist isn't playing fair. The artist is not spoon-feeding the reader. It's a puzzle.
Other investigations have tied the VMs mermaid to mythical Melusine, who was held to be ancestral, through Bonne of Luxembourg, to the Valois (Berry & Burgundy etc.) rulers of this era. The VMs "mermaid" is clearly a special case. Mermaids do not have thighs. Melusine of Luxembourg was more like a mermaid than the winged and dragon-like Melusine of Lusignan.
Incidentally, the use of a simple nebuly line as a cosmic boundary is uncommon but can be found in the Berry Apocalypse.
Rene said this today in another thread: "Little by little, the evidence turned up and we got a more and more complete picture."
Sometimes little by little occurs with a tectonic nature. Sometimes nothing happens for a long time, then all of a sudden... The discovery by E. Velinska was one of those events <IMHO>. The original posting also included a cosmic diagram from Harley 334 with some interesting similarities. Harley 334 also has an illustration of a mermaid and 'friends' similar to the VMs.
BNF Fr. 565 has ties of provenance to Oresme, to Jean de Berry and to Paris c. 1410. The structure of the cosmos is atypical. There are no planetary or heavenly spheres. Harley 334 (Paris, 2nd Qtr. 15th) shows that this cosmic structure has a Parisian connection during the C-14 dates.
The VMs cosmos clearly looks different. Starting with the central Earth, it is apparent that this part of the VMs depiction is not pictorial. The representation has undergone a code shift from pictorial to linguistic. The inverted T-O structure remains, but any chance of visual similarity is out the window. And that is a useful concept because it works elsewhere as well. The artist has intentionally manipulated appearance, in the stars and in the cosmic boundary / cloud band. In the VMs cosmic cloud band, the 43 undulations of ''565" ambiguously play hide and see between the intersecting, curved spokes from a version of Shirakatsi's wheel (Eight Phases of the Moon). And this part of the deal as weel - ambiguity. The artist isn't playing fair. The artist is not spoon-feeding the reader. It's a puzzle.
Other investigations have tied the VMs mermaid to mythical Melusine, who was held to be ancestral, through Bonne of Luxembourg, to the Valois (Berry & Burgundy etc.) rulers of this era. The VMs "mermaid" is clearly a special case. Mermaids do not have thighs. Melusine of Luxembourg was more like a mermaid than the winged and dragon-like Melusine of Lusignan.
Incidentally, the use of a simple nebuly line as a cosmic boundary is uncommon but can be found in the Berry Apocalypse.