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Re: VMs: f56r & f56v (WAS: 1006184 & 1006185)

and to continue the boredom :-)

Dennis wrote:

At the risk of being a bore, let me ask again. Medieval herbals were often drawn from classical
herbals that had been distorted by generations of
copying.


I'd like to see evidence of that. I've looked at a few old herbals in the Wellcome library and they don't look distorted.

Those in turn were not necessarily of local
flora.  So they weren't necessarily drawn from life.


The could have been drawn from dry specimens - which usually retain the morphology but not the fleshiness or all the colour. But against the copying emphasis one must note that some herbals would have been used, or considered useful, and therefore reasonable accuracy would be required (the 'identification' point that has come up before).

  	Rene long ago said that the VMs herbal drawings also
don't resemble known distorted medieval drawings.  Can
anyone give more detail?


Indeed.


Of course, fantasy plants don't have to be realistic. The VMs could be outsider art. Although even there the
plants could have had a real-life inspiration.


Indeed.


Dennis
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