13-03-2025, 04:03 PM
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The iconography of Quire 13 is so enormously complex that it has never been well interpreted. Images have a meaning and you have to know how to see it, leaving aside the pure whim of the author that can lead to error. In the image I posted from f84v, we see the pinecone again, which, as I said, is a representation of the sphere of the fixed stars, the final sphere of the medieval universe. From it emerge effluvia, emanations that materialize in the female figures.
Of course, if you don't believe that the pinecone represents the sky and you believe that the female figures are women or female spirits, we will never understand each other. I'm in no hurry. I trust that one day it will be understood.
The iconography of Quire 13 is so enormously complex that it has never been well interpreted. Images have a meaning and you have to know how to see it, leaving aside the pure whim of the author that can lead to error. In the image I posted from f84v, we see the pinecone again, which, as I said, is a representation of the sphere of the fixed stars, the final sphere of the medieval universe. From it emerge effluvia, emanations that materialize in the female figures.
Of course, if you don't believe that the pinecone represents the sky and you believe that the female figures are women or female spirits, we will never understand each other. I'm in no hurry. I trust that one day it will be understood.