17-06-2024, 05:11 PM
That's a great find, Bernd. It feels relevant to me. Even if the species looks like a different one, I think there is a lot of explanatory power in this example. We have a vine-like plant with something that looks like a loop at the bottom. The thought that this overlapping of two stems then became an unnatural loop in the VM is just a very good explanation for the feature.
For what it's worth, for now I would personally operate under the paradigm that the VM makers used a few different illustrated herbals for whatever it is they were doing. I would say there must have been a Dioscorides among those, but also at least one different type.
I assume it may not be a stretch to say that a library that had one herbal MS may have had more of them.
For what it's worth, for now I would personally operate under the paradigm that the VM makers used a few different illustrated herbals for whatever it is they were doing. I would say there must have been a Dioscorides among those, but also at least one different type.
I assume it may not be a stretch to say that a library that had one herbal MS may have had more of them.