Getting close to a source for f85r2

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edit: The idea of four seasons is not new. Here is a discussion on Stephen Bax's website. The topic is of course viewed from a different perspective.
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2014... One of Marco's earliest contributions to the study? I also seem to recall we discussed the woman as old age before. So I'm definitely not presenting a novel idea. Not any other idea, really. It was the sequence of images I found remarkable.

The pictorial sequence in the “1491 Printed edition” ( post #23 ) presented by Marco is the same as yours. However, since the illustrations there are labeled “Autumn” and “Winter”, the idea of the seasons suggests itself to me. This is all the more true as the text beside the physician, as I said, also refers to the seasons. I would even speculate that the fourth figure, which does not appear in the sequence, refers to spring. But what is missing is summer. Perhaps the illustrator has simply left it out of the f85r2 so that there are only four symbols or “Summer” could be represented by the sun in the center.

The old woman ( in a rowing boat ) as a symbol for winter, for example, is depicted in this cycle of the four seasons.
   
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