Getting close to a source for f85r2

[Koen G]

Regarding the pointing man, I have a bit more of an idea what might be going on.

A full sequence of Laufenberg Seasons + Humors would look something like this:

1) SCHOLAR introduces this part of the book
2) FLOWER held by two or three season-people. I suspect these were originally three.
3) CANE + ROSARY for winter
4) URINOSCOPY shifts the topic to medicine
5) Musician, sanguine
6) Sword man, choleric (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)
7) Sleeping or resting person, phlegmatic 
8) BANKER/RICH MAN, melancholic

The introducing scholar (1) and the rich melancholic man (8) are of interest to us. One would appear at the start of the series, the other at the end. Interestingly, there is confusion about these in the Berlin and Karlsruhe MS. Berlin is the most "correct": it has the scholar to introduce the section, and a man with coins as the melancholic. However, Karlsruhe has only the Melancholic, but clearly replaced him with a scholar (compare to the Berlin scholar).

If the VM figure really has a ring, the rich melancholic would explain this - there seems to have been confusion with the scholar, perhaps since both sit at a lectern.