Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Of course, the hope of finding a 1:1 comprehensible Mappa Mundi is in vain. After all, we are dealing with the VMS here.

Hm, that is a good point.  More generally, I would say that the Author's goal was to record things that he thought no one else knew.  He would not waste time and money writing things that could be found in other books, or that were known to other scholars, even if only a few of them.

Thus we should not expect to find in the VMS a chapter of Aristotle, pages from Dioscorides, an exegesis of Revelation, a map of Europe...

All the best, --stolfi