Nice, I missed that while browsing images of the Tacuinium sanitatis recently!
I would like to add that the Tacuinium sanitatis also has a link to the Tree-and-Vine of You are not allowed to view links.
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Apparently the beautifully illustrated copies were originally created for Northern Italian nobility around 1400. the Rhineland copy is a little later. Here's a list of Tacuinium sanitatis copies
BNF Nouvelle acquisition latine 1673; 1390-1400 or 1380-90, Pavia or Milan, Lombardy region, N. Italy.
Bibliothèque de l'Université de Liège, Ms. 1041; 1380-1400, Veneto region, Italy.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - ÖNB, Cod. Ser. N. 2644 Han; 1390-1400, Lombardy region, Italy.
Biblioteca Casanatense, Ms. 4182; 1390-1400, Lombardy region, Italy.
Biblioteca Casanatense, Ms 459; c. 1400, Milan(?), Lombardy region, Italy.
Biblioteca del hospital Real, Universidad de Granada, Ms C67 [BHN/Caja A-001]; 1440-1445, Italy.
BNF, Latin 9333; 1445-1451, Rhineland, Germany.
Bibliothèque municipale, Rouen, Ms. 3054 [formerly Leber 1088] and other half in a private collection in Liechtenstein; 1450s.
New York Public Library, Spencer Collection ms. 65; 1460 or c. 1470, Lodi region or Ferrara(?), Italy.
BNF, Italien 1108; 1470-1475, Lodi region, Italy.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - ÖNB, Cod. 5264 Han [formerly Med. 2]; 1470-1475, Lodi region, Italy.
Bibliothèque Internationale de Gastronomie, Lugano, Ms. 15; 1470-1475, Lodi region, Italy.
ÖNB, Ms. 2396 [formerly Eug. Q. 59]; 1476-1500, Venice, Italy.
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I got stuck looking at the image sources of the Tacuinium itself at some point but it is connected to other herbals and calendars and books of hours already mentioned in connection with the VM. I think in the end it's all one big network, all the sources are interconnected.
The early copies were created by the workshop of Giovannino de Grassi which might be worth looking into if nobody already has. His workshop also made the Visconti Book of Hours
(Biblioteca Nazionale MSS BR 397 e LF 22) between 1389 and 1430.
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However I am still convinced we must separate text from images and that manuscripts were often created by compiling texts from scrolls and images from
pinakes or other stock image collections, much like today. This also explains glitches (copying the wrong plant or repurposing an image in a different context like Gemini). Is there any literature about how a Lauber-style workshop operated? I only know about the early Dioscorides copies and there the scientific consensus was that workshops used text from scrolls and images from large wooden boards when compiling a book. There were not copied from other books but recompiled from scratch which was much more efficient. Many people could simultaneously work on text fragments and stock images instead of a single scribe copying an existing book page by page, making it inaccessible to others for a long time period.
I also would not rule out that the creator(s) of the VM had access to an image collection rather than a collection of books.