19-11-2025, 02:06 AM
Yes, that's the illustration. To my knowledge, it was first posted by JKP.
The cosmic investigation as you mention is based on an *inverted* T/O Earth and a cosmos with no planets or planetary spheres or any potential 'heavens'.
The Agnus Dei of BNF Fr. 13096 is inside a fancy vesica piscis. This structure represents a sort of cosmic boundary that various medieval artists used to show a separation between the sacred and the earthly realms. This same sort of boundary has also been shown by the use of a cloud band (wolkenband), which has been represented in a wide range of styles and colors, some of which were based on a nebuly line, like the scallop-shell "Oresme" cosmos [BNF Fr. 565]. Sometimes a vesica piscis will use nebuly lines.
The VMs artist makes much use of the nebuly line, including in the cosmos and associated with the VMs critter. If the nebuly line is interpreted as a cosmic boundary, then what sort of critter would be associated with a cosmic boundary? Armadillos and pangolins don't need to be associated with cosmic boundaries. [If one knows nothing of wolkenbands and only sees a pillow, of course, all bets are off, though the 'droplets' may still be problematic.]
The particular thing about this illustration is the structure. The lamb is on one side of the cosmic boundary, and the droplets of blood are on the other side, and this is mirrored in the VMs. Other representations discovered so far, where blood is shown, have the lamb and the blood on the *same side* of the cosmic boundary.
Early as it is; the manuscript is dated 1313, it is still anachronistic to a Roger Bacon scenario.
The cosmic investigation as you mention is based on an *inverted* T/O Earth and a cosmos with no planets or planetary spheres or any potential 'heavens'.
The Agnus Dei of BNF Fr. 13096 is inside a fancy vesica piscis. This structure represents a sort of cosmic boundary that various medieval artists used to show a separation between the sacred and the earthly realms. This same sort of boundary has also been shown by the use of a cloud band (wolkenband), which has been represented in a wide range of styles and colors, some of which were based on a nebuly line, like the scallop-shell "Oresme" cosmos [BNF Fr. 565]. Sometimes a vesica piscis will use nebuly lines.
The VMs artist makes much use of the nebuly line, including in the cosmos and associated with the VMs critter. If the nebuly line is interpreted as a cosmic boundary, then what sort of critter would be associated with a cosmic boundary? Armadillos and pangolins don't need to be associated with cosmic boundaries. [If one knows nothing of wolkenbands and only sees a pillow, of course, all bets are off, though the 'droplets' may still be problematic.]
The particular thing about this illustration is the structure. The lamb is on one side of the cosmic boundary, and the droplets of blood are on the other side, and this is mirrored in the VMs. Other representations discovered so far, where blood is shown, have the lamb and the blood on the *same side* of the cosmic boundary.
Early as it is; the manuscript is dated 1313, it is still anachronistic to a Roger Bacon scenario.
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