ReneZ > 11 hours ago
(Today, 04:27 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The answer to (2) is "not always" because the Zodiac bifolios were clearly not meant to be nested.
JoJo_Jost > 10 hours ago
ReneZ > 8 hours ago
Cuagga > 7 hours ago
(11 hours ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(Yesterday, 10:29 PM)Cuagga Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(Yesterday, 10:08 PM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Another possibility is that the Painter noticed that the drawing of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. extended into f40r, and thus opened the book on that page and painted those bits. It seems that the paint on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. stops a hair before the gutter, and the paint on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does not quite match:I struggle to imagine that painting while the manuscript is bound would yield such clean result ; colour right up to the margin, while not covering neither the opposite page f34r, nor the binding string visible on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (first flower from the top). It also seems to me that the bottom part of the middle flower shows paint right into the gutter
But on the top flower the paint seems to stop a pixel or two before the gutter (A):
Also the offsetting of the blue-black paint on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (B,C) seems to be vertically mismatched relative to paint on f33v. What do we make of that?
And could please someone explain what we see at (D,E)? Is that binding string running along the gutter?
All the best, --stolfi
Hider > 6 hours ago
(Yesterday, 10:08 PM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Another possibility is that the Painter noticed that the drawing of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. extended into f40r, and thus opened the book on that page and painted those bits. It seems that the paint on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. stops a hair before the gutter, and the paint on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does not quite match:
But note that both images are somewhat distorted right next to the gutter, because of the curvature of the vellum.
All the best, --stolfi
Jorge_Stolfi > 4 hours ago
(11 hours ago)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The presence of quire numbers on one out of every four sheets with herbal illustrations clearly means that these were meant at that time to be nested in stacks of four. Even with alternating A and B sheets.
Jorge_Stolfi > 3 hours ago
(6 hours ago)Hider Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In the photograph, the seams interfere with proper perception. A visual examination of the original would undoubtedly resolve this issue.
LisaFaginDavis > 2 hours ago
Jorge_Stolfi > 1 hour ago
LisaFaginDavis > 1 hour ago
(1 hour ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks for the post! But, just to fix the credits:(2 hours ago)LisaFaginDavis Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.as Stolfi noted, the pharma bifolia are likely singulions as well.I said that of Zodiac. It was Rene who added Pharma.
All the best, --stolfi