VMs: Nice medieval pictures ...

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at these surprising manuscript pages from the Dutch Royal
Library.
To be honest - I don't know what to make of the striking likeness - I wasn't
looking for any VMS-like pictures and these took me by surprise. I'm still
recovering from the shock. Maybe there's no real likeness to speak of ...

Lambert of St. Omer, Liber Floridus
Lille and Ninove; 1460
Made for Pierre de Goux et de Wedergraete (d. 1471). Philip of Cleves
(1456-1528); purchased in 1531 from his estate by Henri III, Count of Nassau
(d. 1538); by inheritance to the Princes of Orange-Nassau, the later
Stadtholders, at The Hague; taken in 1795 to Paris by the French occupying
forces and restituted in 1816 to the KB

Rosette like thingies:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa300/72A23_071V_AFBM.JPG
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa300/72A23_007R_AFBM.JPG
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa125/72A23_015R_AFBT.JPG
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa125/72A23_015V_AFB_DET_1T.JPG
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa125/72A23_016R_AFBT.JPG
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa300/72A23_036R_AFBM.JPG

A plant thingy:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa300/72A23_037R_AFBM.JPG

An imaginary castle thingy:
http://www.kb.nl/kb/manuscripts/thumbsa300/72A23_051R_AFBM.JPG

And there are about 108 of these "astrological" pictures around here:
http://www.kb.nl/vh-cgi/vhfullref.pl?isFromMan=1&subsubfilter=TOTAL&subsubfr
om=36&from

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