(24-07-2025, 09:42 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Even this is debatable. We have seen examples of Italian civic buildings in the same style (the name of the city it was in escapes me right now). Or alternatively, walled structures on maps that to us look like castles are often shorthand for cities. So it may not be a castle in the strict sense, and it may not even stand for a single building.
But that is exactly what I meant - I may not have expressed it very clearly.
The drawing is a drawing of a castle. But what does it stand for?
- Some specific castle
- A generic castle
- Some specific town (city, borgo...)
- A generic town
- Something else.
We can have opinions about this but we don't know.
Interestingly, even if it represents a specific castle, it may not look like it at all, and the castle in question may not even have swallow-tail crenellations.
The crenellations are (for me) the most interesting aspect, and their presence is supported by other occurrences of such on the same page.
It provides a link of the MS with northern Italy.
It may have been created in that area.
I think that the chances of that are good, because that is something that is true for a large number of manuscripts that include such illustrations, and this is an independent piece of supporting evidence.