06-09-2025, 05:11 PM
The codex, as you already and surely know, cannot be analysed only through its main script. There are so many levels and I’d have liked to write *everything* but I chose to write only about something I’m sure about. Besides, there are so many photos and extracts from other books and codices I didn’t publish because I couldn’t pay the photo rights to the museum or library. There are some pictures of churches with the same moons and stars, that I’ll be publishing in a next book, in order to explain why and where they are.
My next work will be about botany, which is my main field of expertise (botanic iconography in manuscripts prior to the print) and the job to do is huge, since plants in the VM are easily identifiable to me (except 2 or 3 for which I will provide the family and the genre but not the species, which would be identifiable correctly in real life only) but linguistically, their names in the codex are a philological study on their own.
My next work will be about botany, which is my main field of expertise (botanic iconography in manuscripts prior to the print) and the job to do is huge, since plants in the VM are easily identifiable to me (except 2 or 3 for which I will provide the family and the genre but not the species, which would be identifiable correctly in real life only) but linguistically, their names in the codex are a philological study on their own.