RE: Plans for conference?
R. Sale > 15-04-2022, 07:39 PM
If I'd have found 'strong arguments', you'd have heard them by now. What I'm looking at are the illustrations, and with anything that is visual, there is going to be interpretation. The interpretation of VMs illustrations is based appearance, and sometimes structure, number etc. What appears to be happening in certain VMs illustrations is an intentional alteration of appearance. The comparison of similarity therefore fails if the only consideration is appearance. The use of a code shift in the inverted T-O Earth or two options for the orientation of blue stripes on White Aries are clear examples of artistic manipulation.
The interpretation of VMs illustrations is not based on a particular, single example. Rather it is built up from a variety of different investigations that coincide or connect with the era of the C-14 dates and the Golden Fleece. The historical cosmic illustrations, [BNF Fr. 565, Oresme (c. 1410) and Harley 334, De Metz, (c. 1430)] are both in the C-14 dates and are both made in Paris. Paris was held by the English and the Burgundians from 1420 to 1435. And the Order of the Golden Fleece is Burgundian.
There is La Sainte Hostie de Dijon in 1435. The Well of Moses, since 1405, is in Dijon. The Agnus Dei of BNF Fr. 13096 was in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy. The mystical ring and cross of Colette of Corbie are after 1410 and she was supported by the Dukes and Duchesses of Burgundy.
Harley 334 also has the "mermaid and friends" representation, as further defined by the illustrations of Lauber. However, in the VMs there has been a substitution, and the generic mermaid been replaced by the Melusine of Luxembourg which ties to the Valois descendants including Burgundy.
Additionally, the Valois line of Jean, Duke of Berry (d. 1416, Paris), has several connections to the Melusine of Lusignan. His library included BNF Fr. 565 and the Berry Apocalypse which has one of the better versions of a nebuly line used as a cosmic boundary, like the VMs cosmos.
How much ambiguity and obfuscation does it take to make up for one piece of irrefutable evidence? When these tricks like visual alteration, structural verification and the papelonny canting, that have been built into the VMs become more obvious, but that hasn't happened yet.