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Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
Stefan Wirtz_2 > 21-01-2026, 04:27 PM
(13-01-2026, 12:03 AM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..] only the degree of our own conviction...
Quite right, but there are several grades of conviction: I prefer the more prooveables...
(Byzantine Doctor's Clothing: Universitaria gr. 3632, folio 255v. Serapion with medicine jar (left); assistant with mortar and pestle (center); Praxagoras (right); 15th c.)
![[Image: 188e03865c9aecb148e4d4ef37a17449.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/18/8e/03/188e03865c9aecb148e4d4ef37a17449.jpg)
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
MarcoP > 21-01-2026, 06:26 PM
Click on "mirador" for full scans of Bologna ms. 3632 (15th century).
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It also includes:
- a page with labelled cylindrical jars
- astronomical diagrams
- geomancy
- something like "starred paragarphs" (colored circlets instead of stars as paragraph markers)
- a bestiary
- an illustrated herbal
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about (two pages from) the ms. - a page with labelled cylindrical jars
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
ReneZ > 21-01-2026, 11:47 PM
(21-01-2026, 06:26 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Click on "mirador" for full scans of Bologna ms. 3632 (15th century).
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It also includes:
- a page with labelled cylindrical jars
- astronomical diagrams
- geomancy
- something like "starred paragarphs" (colored circlets instead of stars as paragraph markers)
- a bestiary
- an illustrated herbal
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about (two pages from) the ms.
This highly interesting MS has come up a few times before, see also here:
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and subsequent posts. - a page with labelled cylindrical jars
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
Koen G > 22-01-2026, 12:32 AM
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
R. Sale > 22-01-2026, 01:32 AM
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
DG97EEB > 30-01-2026, 07:56 AM
Do we consider these onion domed? It's from a different Taccola manuscript: De Machinas
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RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
Koen G > 30-01-2026, 08:59 AM
I'd say they're just dome-domed ;)
I also haven't seen any swallow-tailed merlons in his work, so I think it's likely the VM got its buildings from elsewhere. -
RE: Six onion-roof towers supporting heavens
ReneZ > 31-01-2026, 01:09 AM
(30-01-2026, 08:59 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I also haven't seen any swallow-tailed merlons in his work, so I think it's likely the VM got its buildings from elsewhere.
This actually does not matter. When people copied buildings, they would change such details at will.
A perfect example of this is the walled garden in the Tractatus de Herbis tradition, which has straight crenellations in the southern manuscripts, which are changed to swallow-tailed in the Milanese Sloane copy.