VMs: The Villard Portfolio

[mskala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I came across this site while looking for something else, and it made me
think of the VMS:

   http://www.villardman.net/

Villard de Honnecourt is known only from one work: a portfolio of
parchment leaves with drawings and text on them, dating from roughly the
1220s-1230s.  Unlike the VMS, the text is understandable (it's in a
language described as "basically the Picard dialect of Old French, with
some Central French forms rather than Picard forms used consistently").  
However, like the VMS, there are plenty of mysteries about the document.

-- 
Matthew Skala
mskala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                    Embrace and defend.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/

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