01-02-2026, 03:55 PM
(01-02-2026, 03:44 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thank you for those quotes, Bernd. I especially like the one about the use of patterns, which is something I also noticed and found very VM-like.
Regarding the possibilities of copies, they must have existed because these Renaissance men needed to make a name for themselves. Marco referred me to this work from 1972: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
On p.16, it is suggested that a copy must have been given to the emperor Sigismund in 1433.
I guess one could object that these materials would only be available in the upper echelons of society. But to me this feels like information rather than a problem
You may find the attached interesting. I asked Gemini to "deep research", which if you haven't used it before is a great tool for doing deep web searches. Like everything else Gemini does, it's not guaranteed to be error free, but it's normally pretty reliable and if you give it the right research question, can find a surprising amount that's not easily found by Google alone. Provided with caveats then...