06-03-2024, 10:17 AM
Thanks very much, merrimacga.
However something about the manuscript doesn't feel right. In particular the drawings and paintings on the botany pages look very unprofessional and don't compare well with the detailed drawings on the astrology pages.
My idea was that the writings were a forgery, and were written because there was a market for rare books. The author might have intended to first complete a starter manuscript to gain initial interest. Then after the success of his original offering he committed himself to doing further work. His patron later may have decided to bind all the work together.
Otherwise if it was not a forgery and the author was writing for himself then was all of the content of the manuscript really so important that some of it could not have been written in the local language?
However something about the manuscript doesn't feel right. In particular the drawings and paintings on the botany pages look very unprofessional and don't compare well with the detailed drawings on the astrology pages.
My idea was that the writings were a forgery, and were written because there was a market for rare books. The author might have intended to first complete a starter manuscript to gain initial interest. Then after the success of his original offering he committed himself to doing further work. His patron later may have decided to bind all the work together.
Otherwise if it was not a forgery and the author was writing for himself then was all of the content of the manuscript really so important that some of it could not have been written in the local language?