Re: VMs: Folio and Quire numbers

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:

> The VMs is so fluently written and there are enough
> repeated elements that I wonder if the system is really
> that complicated.  
>  
Without evidence (obviously), this is my gut feeling too. (Or maybe just 
my sincere hope.)

> I agree with Nick that it's probably a Renaissance
> creation.  The imagery is really neither medieval or
> Renaissance. 
I think this points out the weakness of many arguments based on details 
of nymphs or castles, hairdos, flowers, and so on: this manuscript 
resembles a lot of things but not very much. It's really _sui generis_, 
and I think it is more likely to be a one-off, written for one of many 
possible reasons (a joke, a game, to sell, or just for the joy of doing 
it), and not the only surviving example of a class of such objects.

Sure, you can go out fisihing and catch a coelecanth, but I doubt that 
is what this is.

Bruce



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