JustAnotherTheory > Yesterday, 07:45 PM
oshfdk > Yesterday, 09:38 PM
(Yesterday, 07:45 PM)JustAnotherTheory Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The VMS also contains a disk with a T-O globe in the middle. This is also a feature of La Sfera:
Linda > Yesterday, 11:58 PM
(Yesterday, 07:45 PM)JustAnotherTheory Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.La Sfera by Gregorio Dati is an early 15th century North Italian illustrated cosmographical poem. Dati lived an unusual life and I highly recommend that you read about it here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. ...160 15th century manuscripts in the list now!
Anyway, La Sfera was very popular in the 1400s and was copied many times.
Quote: ... The reason I'm posting this here is because (in my opinion) the imagery in La Sfera seems similar to that of the VMS. Let me begin by a direct parallel to the VMS f68 foldouts:I agree, on both the cosmos/stars and the maps, especially how they are generally just pieces of a larger whole, and drawn in various ways, with many being less recognizable than others.
Quote:...In fact, there are so many such star maps with the sun above and the moon below, I don't have enough space to show them all here. There is a collaborative online project called "La Sfera Project" that aims to gather information about all the copies of La Sfera (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). I also encourage you to take a look.I need to take a look again! The last time I looked, I recall there being very few with images. I remember i was looking at the Gibraltar drawings trying to figure out if any resembled the vms version enough, as it is very detailed in what I take as its closeup of Gibraltar and Ceuta (f76v). But most of the Dati versions I've seen are very freehand, difficult even to recognize sometimes as to what they show. Easier when you can compare with other versions.
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