Getting close to a source for f85r2

[Koen G]

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Excellent! I completely forgot about that. This means that the three figures with attributes were already recognized before: VViews posted a person with staff and rosary and Matthias the doctor. I just happened to find them in a sequence. And you showed that the pointing figure may be in the right place as well.

In all likelihood, the sequence in a hypothesized source manuscript was like this:

1. pointing scholar introduces section about seasons etc
   
2. three figures with flowers stand for the first three seasons
   
3. a person with stick and rosary stands for winter
   
4. a doctor with a vial introduces the "humors" section
   

This would mean that the figures with flowers became compressed into one somehow. One explanation would be that the VM artist wanted 4 markedly different figures. Another could be that the source manuscript only had a drawing of one of the flower figures.