28-05-2017, 01:04 AM
Thanks Marco,
Study of the Udine ms was the final item in a growing number, which altogether convinced me that (quite apart from where the content came from) the Vms was produced in the corridor between England, northern France and the Veneto c.1427-8.
Between the Udine and the Vms we have similar forms, but dissimilar style, set iconographic habits and cultural attitudes - all of which suggests the Udine the result of access to an earlier source closer to the Vms and in that northern region.
I've opted for the library of Padua university as holding the material by the early fifteenth century - as you may know. Dating the Vms' manufacture to c.1427-28 isn't due to iconography so much as codicology. (just btw).
Thanks for the detailed comparisons - well worth citing.
Study of the Udine ms was the final item in a growing number, which altogether convinced me that (quite apart from where the content came from) the Vms was produced in the corridor between England, northern France and the Veneto c.1427-8.
Between the Udine and the Vms we have similar forms, but dissimilar style, set iconographic habits and cultural attitudes - all of which suggests the Udine the result of access to an earlier source closer to the Vms and in that northern region.
I've opted for the library of Padua university as holding the material by the early fifteenth century - as you may know. Dating the Vms' manufacture to c.1427-28 isn't due to iconography so much as codicology. (just btw).
Thanks for the detailed comparisons - well worth citing.