The middle of f82r as death or resurrection
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Given the context it appears in, I assume "stella diana" might be a phrase chosen for rhyme and metre. When I first googled the term, I found some people explaining it with reference to the goddess of the hunt, which makes no sense since she is already associated with the moon. Do you think "diana" was a perfectly normal word to say "of the day", or a bit of a poetic stretch?

I don't know if we can say with certainty that the dot is a pupil. Usually in the MS, pupils are drawn either by thickening part of the curve that makes the eye, or by sectioning off part of it. Now if the dot is placed in the eye with purpose, then I can also see it only as a pupil. One pupil looking straight at us...

I'm also still interested in the bed. In some older manuscripts, you get these beanbag shaped objects, I assume they are like mattresses. They are oval, not framed by a rectangular bed. To my subjective feeling, you wouldn't often see something like this in the later Middle Ages. I think then the visual vocabulary for a bed was a rectangular piece of furniture. But the VM nymph seems to have been inspired by the beanbag type.

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RE: The middle of f82r as death or resurrection - by Koen G - 19-08-2024, 10:10 AM

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