Dragons, Dogs & Amadillos?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I always hesitate to say anything looks like anything in the manuscript, but the proposed nebulae look fairly convincingly like nebulae to me. I'm not sure how much closer that gets me to seeing the beast a certain way, though

So those nebuly lines too are a common idiom in Medieval graphical language, like dragons and roots shaped like women.  I mean, the VMS scribe did not invent that style of lines himself.  

Could those nebuly lines be used to constrain the location where the scribe worked (or came from),
like the merlons and dresses did?

The pool at the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Bio) also has a nebuly edge, which departs from its supposed meaning of "cloud".  However, that discrepancy may be spurious, because that edge [theory censored to protect allergic researchers].

A nebuly line also appears as the edge of the "galaxy core" on page f68v3.  That part of the diagram is incongruous since the stars say it is sky, while the double outline says it is a sunken pool of water.  And neither would be a cloud.  However, that discrepancy too may be spurious, because, there too, [theory censored to protect allergic researchers].

All the best, --stolfi