RE: Was the VMS artist a fan of Michael Scot?
Bernd > 3 hours ago
These are indeed very good matches! But we must discern between imagery and text. Just because the VM artist copied certain imagery, this does not mean it is in any way related to the content. It appears that the VM artist recycled and modified imagery from a variety of sources. It might even be that he had just the images at hand and not the corresponding text. Or at least that he did not understand it. In a workshop, commercial manuscripts were compiled from separate text and image sources. Manuscripts were not copied from manuscripts because this was inefficient. By having separate text and imagery, a multitude of people could work on the same product simultaneously.
If possible, could you make a spreadsheet with the time and place where these manuscripts were created like we have for the month names? It does not look like they came from the same workshop but we might be able to narrow down a time period There must have been some source of this imagery. If it is a German workshop, this might be very interesting.