03-12-2016, 10:10 PM
You are right, I was forgetting that the colours were most probably added at a later time (and not impossibly even by someone who already could not understand the text anymore).
If we suppose for a moment that this plant is Longwort, then there is another oddity with the colors. I read that it is typical for Longwort that its flowers change colour over the season, from white-ish in early spring over red to purple later on. But in f7v, it are the leaves that are represented in different colours, not the flowers. As if someone was making/colouring images of plants he never saw for himself, based on a text that he was sometimes misinterpreting.
I am still interested in the question of the level of abstraction of the drawings, though.
And I know now what I am going to ask for my Sinterklaas (Belgian Santaclaus): a version of the manuscript without the paint, only the drawings.
If we suppose for a moment that this plant is Longwort, then there is another oddity with the colors. I read that it is typical for Longwort that its flowers change colour over the season, from white-ish in early spring over red to purple later on. But in f7v, it are the leaves that are represented in different colours, not the flowers. As if someone was making/colouring images of plants he never saw for himself, based on a text that he was sometimes misinterpreting.
I am still interested in the question of the level of abstraction of the drawings, though.
And I know now what I am going to ask for my Sinterklaas (Belgian Santaclaus): a version of the manuscript without the paint, only the drawings.