VMs: Iconographic parallels - first attempt (2)

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Iconographic parallels and non-parallels to the big foldout.
First attempt. Not building theories, just starting to gather data.

1)

Maurice Pope
The story of decipherment
>From Egyptian hieroglyphic to Linear B

Pages 12 and 13 show two fifteenth century maps of the Vatican:
- Traditionalist - By Pietro del Massaio, AD 1471
- Humanist - By Alessandro Strozzi, AD 1474

The way the buildings are drawn in the VMS foldout looks much more 
humanist than traditional. The style of drawing is similar. But the 
castles themselves look very different from buildings of Rome. They look 
much more North-European.

2)

Theatrum Sanitatis (Tacuinum Sanitatis)
Ububchasim de Baldach (Ellucasim Elimittar)
MS 4182 Bibliotheca Casanatense, Rome
14th / 15th century

Plants are simplified, but still very realistic, totally non-VMS like.
But:
Every plate is cut off from the viewer by an "abyss" that looks very much 
like the "abysses" near the spire in the foldout.
The likeness is even greater on plate XXXII: Terra Tartuffe (mushrooms) 
where a whole mountain is drawn. That looks very similar.

3)

John Dee's Conversations with Angels
Caballa, Alchemy and the End of Nature
Deborah E. Harkness

Page 18 - The first page of John Dee's surviving angel diaries, 22 
December 1581. On the right side of the page, Dee drew a sketch of his 
stone, supported by a frame.

Page 170 - In this entry, Dee sketched the angel Carmara.

The handwriting, English, Latin and Hebrew is totally non-VMS.
The drawing of the stone might have a VMS-look. But the drawing is too 
small to draw any conclusions. The drawing of the angel is non-VMS (more 
amateur-like).

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