Merpersons

[don of tallahassee]

My point with showing these four images of merpersons (or other actors) possibly all in the act of taking off their tail costumes (or whatever) is that they all show a remarkable similarity in their poses, with one leg slightly raised, costume slightly removed. I can find no other images in manuscripts where women (to say nothing of merpersons) are in the act of undressing in this manner or pose. The similarity of even more images (can you find them?) in the VMS to these four leads me to believe that the artist of the VMS must have at some time seen, and used as a model, the Hunterian image. I would be happy to entertain alternate ideas or images as possibilities for the model of the merperson-type images in the VMS. I just haven't found one or them.

If the Hunterian image was the model for the VMS images, it would mean the artist of the VMS was probably in England at some time. The Hunterian manuscript was probably manufactured around York and now resides in Scotland. Many current theories about the VMS are not in accordance with this idea, nor are their propounders very eager to embrace it.

It is easier to reject the image than alter their ideas and pet theories. I can understand that.

If anyone knows of any alternate possibilities, I would really like to see them/it or receive a link to them/it.

I try to make my ideas and theories fit the evidence, not the evidence fit my theories. And I do try to rely on evidence, not IFidence.

Thank you.

Don of Tallahassee