[split] Book of Holy Trinity

[EllieV]

Rene,
Yes, it was in 2008 that I was approached and asked to comment on imagery from this manuscript.

I don't quite see why it's relevant.  It's not as if my date of entry means I may read nothing written earlier than August 2008 - any more than someone who encounters the manuscript today is barred from reading anything written before October 2016.

The point is rather that a person who first brings new information, data, argument and original research to this study deserves due recognition. To do otherwise is to create a false impression that the non-crediting writer actually discovered it themselves - which is false - or to hinder the efforts of people wanting to see what basis the original proponent had for any ideas that now circulate.  Such things are, or should be, self-evident to any scholar so I apologise for stating the obvious here.

In this case, I think, the person to be credited is Adam Morris.

Nick's blogpost says:
"Adam’s jumping-off point was the visual similarities between the VMs and Reusner’s 1582 book “Pandora” (a version of the ‘Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit’, Book of the Holy Trinity) – colouring, faces, line-structure, etc. And so he wondered: might Hieronymus Reusner be (or be connected with) the author of the VMs?"

That blogpost is dated 17th June, 2009, so it looks as if "Buch der Heilingen..." first arrived on the scene even later than I did. 

Diane,

The image Ms. Rampling used in her article is unique to the Rylands Univ Library copy of the manuscript (it is not found in the other surviving copies - as far as I know). It has nothing to do with the printed book you cited and Ms Rampling has no obligation whatsoever to credit Adam Morris.