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• RE: Was the VMS artist a fan of Michael Scot?

  Bernd > 4 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.

• RE: Was the VMS artist a fan of Michael Scot?

  R. Sale > 2 hours ago

  The variety of sources is extensive to the point where it becomes difficult to explain, starting with the VMs cosmos.

• RE: Was the VMS artist a fan of Michael Scot?

  Jorge_Stolfi > 13 minutes ago

  (4 hours ago)Jimmy123 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On wikipedia it says Michael Scot went to Tuareg kingdom, maybe VMS is Tuareg influence in the pictures?
  
  What does it look like a Tuareg manuscript? I could not find online

  
  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is what the Tuareg/Berber/Amazigh writing looks like.  But I don't know whether there were ever any Tuareg manuscripts.  The script seems to have been mostly used on stone, pottery, jewelry, etc. The Tuareg started writing longer texts in Berber language only after the spread of Islam, but then they used the Arabic script.
  
  All the best, --stolfi
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