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I am not sure what the mystery is regarding the circular drawings (nymphs)
and text.
I thought that the vellum was rotated (no need for a rotating table)
as the author wrote it. You can see how the angle of the glyphs changes
each time the page was rotated. I can rotate a page without the need
of something so drastic as a rotating table.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 08/03/03 02:31PM >>> Hi everyone, At 10:54 03/08/2003 -0700, Dana Scott wrote: >Very good. So perhaps our scribe had access to rather sophisticated >writing/drawing tools, such as might be found in a monastery or an >institution of higher education. We're getting there, but we'll need to work just a little harder to lock down the precise way that each circle was drawn. If there are indeed dots in the centre of some (but perhaps not others), then it suggests a mechanical aid (like a circinus) - but I'm also fascinated by the question of how many of the less obvious rings were produced. Look at the outer ring on f70r1: this has a sequence that looks like ....oooooooool ar..e.. sasa.. . . . . . . (weird stuff). And look at the outer rings on f67v1 - these look hand-traced or hand-drawn, not mechanical at all. Many of the circles appear to be slightly wobbly and/or non-circular - look at f67r1, for example. Given the general production techniques for manuscripts, I'm not really sure I understand how circular bands of text would be produced easily, unless the whole manuscript was rotating. I suspect that the weird stuff on f70r1 is just a scribe having fun with a rotating writing table. :-) All in all, there are plenty of circular diagrams in the VMS - so we should really be able to work out reasonably definitively from all their peculiarities how they were produced. Cheers, ....Nick Pelling..... PS: a quick aside for Phil Neal: have you looked at the horizontal lines on f67r2? The text lined up by them appears to be largely top-aligned (ie, to the top of the gallows) on the second and third line, but not on the first? ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |