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-JKP- · 25-12-2020, 04:03 PM

(28-05-2018, 04:58 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(28-05-2018, 11:46 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I found this one on a Russian You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about Tacuinum Sanitatis, but don't know more about it. Apparently a rainbow sky accompanies someone picking and smelling herbs.

Thank you, Koen!
I would love to read the text associated with this illustration, but I have been unable to identify the ms it comes from and no similar image appears in the other copies I have examined.
My impression is that the colored bands might represent the planets, as in this illustration from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: the text could then be about the astrological influences in plant gathering (a frequent theme in late medieval herbals, e.g. the Alchemical Herbal). But I am speculating...

I didn't have a good chance to look at this when Marco first posted it but when I look at it now, the "rainbow" seems to be in a different style from the rest of the drawing. The bottom parts are fairly crisp and precise (in terms of line and shape), the colored part looks like a different illustrator. This would not be unusual, sometimes a whole team would work on a single manuscript, sometimes one person drew the people and someone else drew the animals, but it just struck me that the grass/plants/landscape and the colored cloud-shape are quite different.