21-11-2025, 09:00 AM
I don't think it depicts any animal. It's just an optical illusion. Whatever it is, it has to be consistent with what's drawn on the page.
It seems we agree on the meaning of the wavy or nebulous line (let's not get bogged down in the terminology). The important thing is to understand its meaning clearly. It has nothing to do with clouds but with the boundary of the medieval cosmos, that is, the sphere of the stars. I think we've all seen manuscripts where God appears behind that curved line that separates his kingdom from the world he created.
The drawing that looks like an animal is right on that curved line, so it's easy to infer that it's related to it, that they're one and the same. I already said in a previous post that for me it's just an attempt to trace the sphere of the stars. Only one hemisphere is drawn to suggest it.
It seems we agree on the meaning of the wavy or nebulous line (let's not get bogged down in the terminology). The important thing is to understand its meaning clearly. It has nothing to do with clouds but with the boundary of the medieval cosmos, that is, the sphere of the stars. I think we've all seen manuscripts where God appears behind that curved line that separates his kingdom from the world he created.
The drawing that looks like an animal is right on that curved line, so it's easy to infer that it's related to it, that they're one and the same. I already said in a previous post that for me it's just an attempt to trace the sphere of the stars. Only one hemisphere is drawn to suggest it.