A random rant about the VMS

[Stefan Wirtz_2]

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Especially that resemblence to the Nicole Oresme manuscript! That is indeed quite striking. Do we know of other copies of that manuscript? There must be many.

This similarity of VMS „world“ to the drawing in N. Oresmes manuscript proofs a common understanding of the world during that time, not more.
Any „copy“ of the N-O painting would have been quite better than the result in VMS.

Above the medieval world consisting of earth, air and water (or Africa, Asia and Europe ) were the stars and, separated by a etherical seam or „cloud band“, the heavenly spheres with God and the Angels.
This kind of viewing appears quite often in medieval drawings troughout whole Europe; 
there is not really a clue if VMS draftman did copy or even know the Oresme Ms.