f17r

[Skoove]

I must confess I hadn't noticed this before!

The flower appears to be connected to the word below.
I wouldn't call it a 'tulip' but it matches the other 'campanulate' tetramerous flowers found in the VM like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. f32v or the  bulbous calyx style popular in A plants. Curiously there are also some streaks of blue. Is this a transfer (from where?), or was this flower indeed painted?

I think this is a major find as now all marginalia are associated with drawings and those drawings match the VM style. Though in this case the drawing is a bit detached. I do think it paints a coherent picture that all marginalia were created by the same person.

I agree that it does seem to fit the style of flowers that you cited, although they are often significantly larger than this one (with the potential exception of f32v). I'm not sure what to make of the blue since it doesn't really look like it was 'painted', although it is quite common for VMS illustrations to have a couple of strokes of paint and the illustrator then calling it a day. 

I think that the implications of this sketch being attachted to the rest of the marginalia would be very interesting since as you mentioned, the flower style is similar to that of the A plants, whilst the majority of the marginalia is found in B sections.

I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say that this sketch is physically connected to the marginalia found on f17r, however it brings the question: Is the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. marginalia connected to / describing the flower and does this change any interpretations of the marginalia itself?