Palatino 766 pipes, pools, cliffs, streams... (by Taccola)

[Jorge_Stolfi]

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Yup, I can believe the VMS Scribe copying that illustration, of course without understanding it at all.

I talked to Marco about this, and he suspects there's a decent chance these images are original to the 1432-1433 manuscript by Taccola. If true, this would have implications about the VM.

According to Wikipedia, the guy was famous through Europe, so copies of his manuscript must have been available all over the place.  And the copies may have mangled drawings already...

But the dates of Taccola's work then would imply that the VMS was written on a stash of vellum that was decades old, at least...

All the best, --stolfi