Another interesting comparison is found in Harley 334.
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The similarity is not based on appearance as much as it was based on structure: mermaid PLUS four companions.
Harley 334 also contains cosmic diagrams with structures similar to that from BNF Fr. 565 which has been shown to be similar in structure (not appearance) to the cosmic diagram in the VMs.
Both Harley [2nd Qtr. 15th] and BNF [c. 1410] were produced in Paris during the VMs era.
The Lauber and de Metz texts show that mermaids were seen as generic creatures, female from the waist up, fish from the waist down, not as particular individuals. The VMs illustration, however, is not a mermaid because mermaids do not have thighs. The VMs artist has borrowed the structure of the Harley illustration and substituted mythical, mermaid-like Melusine of Luxembourg, purported ancestress of the Valois lines that were historically significant during that time.
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The similarity is not based on appearance as much as it was based on structure: mermaid PLUS four companions.
Harley 334 also contains cosmic diagrams with structures similar to that from BNF Fr. 565 which has been shown to be similar in structure (not appearance) to the cosmic diagram in the VMs.
Both Harley [2nd Qtr. 15th] and BNF [c. 1410] were produced in Paris during the VMs era.
The Lauber and de Metz texts show that mermaids were seen as generic creatures, female from the waist up, fish from the waist down, not as particular individuals. The VMs illustration, however, is not a mermaid because mermaids do not have thighs. The VMs artist has borrowed the structure of the Harley illustration and substituted mythical, mermaid-like Melusine of Luxembourg, purported ancestress of the Valois lines that were historically significant during that time.