09-10-2016, 07:15 PM
(09-10-2016, 07:11 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP - sorry for my repetitive post, I hadn't seen your edit yet when I posted
You may be right about the flourish comparison, they do come in all kinds of styles. Maybe it is meant to convey something about the type of bark or its bevavior? Some barks will break off right away will others will form long curly strips.
That occurred to me too, as I was responding to your post. Maybe it does. Some do break more readily than others.
It's the kind of detail that is often lost or mutated by copyists. If a botanist came up with the idea in the first place (or an artist with a knowledge of plants) and then it were handed to a copyist to reproduce, that person might misinterpret a botanical symbol as a flourish and might add flourishes to everything, and then the original meaning is lost. I've seen many examples of lost meaning in copied medieval manuscripts in a number of subject areas, both in the text and in the drawings.