The most extreme example of a manuscript mixing styles I've found so far is Topkapi Cod. 2127, from which I posted the grapevine earlier. It's a shame that not more of this MS is available online, but the few examples I've found show a huge chasm between Byzantine naturalism and Islamic abstraction. Here's lentil and grapevine:
Both could be used as extreme examples of their respective styles - the "lentil" could be mistaken for a mere decorative element if it weren't in a Dioscirodes: flat, abstract, symmetrical...
Collins mentions that a few other images in this MS, like garlic, are naturalistic as well, I'd love to see those.
Both could be used as extreme examples of their respective styles - the "lentil" could be mistaken for a mere decorative element if it weren't in a Dioscirodes: flat, abstract, symmetrical...
Collins mentions that a few other images in this MS, like garlic, are naturalistic as well, I'd love to see those.