10-05-2026, 05:19 PM
Interpreting what we see in Quire 13 is extraordinarily difficult, as we all know. Certainly, if we only had those pages, there would be no way of knowing what they mean. Fortunately, we have a context to relate the images of Quire 13 to. Anyone who has followed my recent posts and my reasoning about the female figures in the zodiac section will be in a better position to understand this jumble.
If before we saw the female figures in their tubes just before their departure, now in Quire 13 we see them in those same tubes already in their journey. All of this is nothing more than a metaphor for the development of astral influence, for how it is channeled. It is a similar process to the one we see in that sun of Taccola, whose rays are channeled through tubes.
On folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. we see best the metaphor of the journey, with the female figures descending as if on a slide. The place from which they descend will not pose any difficulty for interpretation for many members of this forum. It is the roof of a tent with those undulating lines that represent the ceiling of the medieval universe, the sphere of the fixed stars.
It's easy to mistake some scenes in Quire 13 for women bathing in pools, but it's just an illusion. We see that, but it means something else. On page f75v, in the image above, we see how, from that same tent ceiling, a fluid connects to the head of each of the female figures. It would be absurd to think that they are real women placed there on purpose so that a trickle of water falls on them. They, the female figures, are the fluid. The fluid has become them, a human representation of the influence of the stars.
If before we saw the female figures in their tubes just before their departure, now in Quire 13 we see them in those same tubes already in their journey. All of this is nothing more than a metaphor for the development of astral influence, for how it is channeled. It is a similar process to the one we see in that sun of Taccola, whose rays are channeled through tubes.
On folio You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. we see best the metaphor of the journey, with the female figures descending as if on a slide. The place from which they descend will not pose any difficulty for interpretation for many members of this forum. It is the roof of a tent with those undulating lines that represent the ceiling of the medieval universe, the sphere of the fixed stars.
It's easy to mistake some scenes in Quire 13 for women bathing in pools, but it's just an illusion. We see that, but it means something else. On page f75v, in the image above, we see how, from that same tent ceiling, a fluid connects to the head of each of the female figures. It would be absurd to think that they are real women placed there on purpose so that a trickle of water falls on them. They, the female figures, are the fluid. The fluid has become them, a human representation of the influence of the stars.