[split] Book of Holy Trinity

[Sam G]

The image in the Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit does indeed bear some resemblance to some of the pools in the VMS.  Does this image have any precedent within the alchemical tradition?  If not, then I wonder if the creators of the Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit might have borrowed from a document similar to the VMS rather than the other way around.  It doesn't seem to make much sense to think the VMS would have been inspired by this one small image when you consider that in the VMS there are many different kinds of pools, many different types of flowing water, many different ways that the nymphs are interacting with each other, etc.  But what we see in this other book is only a small fraction of what can be seen in the VMS.