Linda,
That image in post #26 is amazing. I was just thinking that the VMs artist has shown illustrations of rainbows and nebuly lines in wolkenbands in one manuscript, and here you have found them both on a single page. Of course there are certain differences. The rainbow is single, not double. And the pattern of the nebuly line used there is different from that in the VMs central rosette. The VMs uses an engrailed line along the furthest extension of the individual bulbs resulting in multiple small elevations and indentations, whereas the Edgerton example has a sort of head-and-shoulders shape with a single, larger, central elevation on each bulb. These are two alternative techniques by which plain nebuly lines can be embellished.
The Edgerton image is another example showing the rainbow as a divine 'vehicle', and the double rainbow has been shown as a place to sit with a footstool. If this religious use of the rainbow image is a common cultural practice at the time of VMs creation, what are we to make of the fact that the VMs rainbows are vacant?
That image in post #26 is amazing. I was just thinking that the VMs artist has shown illustrations of rainbows and nebuly lines in wolkenbands in one manuscript, and here you have found them both on a single page. Of course there are certain differences. The rainbow is single, not double. And the pattern of the nebuly line used there is different from that in the VMs central rosette. The VMs uses an engrailed line along the furthest extension of the individual bulbs resulting in multiple small elevations and indentations, whereas the Edgerton example has a sort of head-and-shoulders shape with a single, larger, central elevation on each bulb. These are two alternative techniques by which plain nebuly lines can be embellished.
The Edgerton image is another example showing the rainbow as a divine 'vehicle', and the double rainbow has been shown as a place to sit with a footstool. If this religious use of the rainbow image is a common cultural practice at the time of VMs creation, what are we to make of the fact that the VMs rainbows are vacant?
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