Conjectures about the “man without attributes” ( f85r2 )

[Koen G]

I have an idea about why the pointing person with skull cap might be facing right, going against the tendency of the others: if he were found as an authoritative scholar in an initial, he would need to face right to point at the text.

   

Régime du corps
France, perhaps Rouen, ca. 1440-1450
MS M.0165 fol. 5r
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Initial D inhabited by half-figure of author Aldobrandino da Siena, wearing cap and red ermine-trimmed garments of physician, raising right forefinger, behind decorated lectern, in landscape beneath starry night sky. Miniature and historiated initial in Prologue of Aldobrandino da Siena, Régime du Corps.

(nice MS overall by the way, lots of plants)