01-30-2016, 09:08 AM
No, I've not been able to get hold of a copy. If you have one in electronic form, I'd be most grateful for a copy!
As far as I am aware there is no evidence the M2 set were "traced" in the sense most people assume - i.e. a direct copying through a translucent sheet; on the contrary, the evidence points to it being done indirectly. The M2 set also suffers from truly horrible inking that obscures many of the drawing lines underneath. So while it is in many ways the most reliable - for somethings - especially broad spatial details, it is demonstrably less reliable in some others, particularly in fine details.
As far as I understood it, Berger means by "tracing" a very close copy of the spirensis. Just in the sense you say.
The whole conversation about the genesis of the Munich manuscript was preserved and investigated by Berger. It turned out that the person who commissioned the copy was not satisfied, as it was too much "Zeitgeist", and commissioned a second set of the miniatures, which had to follow the spirensis as close as possible. This resulted in the second set of miniatures in the Munich manuscript. So far, then, what we know is that this is in regard of colour, text and spacing the closest copy of the spirensis. There were also investigations made with art-historical method, showing that the colour etc. on M2 is the closest one to what was typical at the time when the spirensis was made.
Unfortunately I do not have a electronic copy, but I highly recommend a read.
As far as I am aware there is no evidence the M2 set were "traced" in the sense most people assume - i.e. a direct copying through a translucent sheet; on the contrary, the evidence points to it being done indirectly. The M2 set also suffers from truly horrible inking that obscures many of the drawing lines underneath. So while it is in many ways the most reliable - for somethings - especially broad spatial details, it is demonstrably less reliable in some others, particularly in fine details.
As far as I understood it, Berger means by "tracing" a very close copy of the spirensis. Just in the sense you say.
The whole conversation about the genesis of the Munich manuscript was preserved and investigated by Berger. It turned out that the person who commissioned the copy was not satisfied, as it was too much "Zeitgeist", and commissioned a second set of the miniatures, which had to follow the spirensis as close as possible. This resulted in the second set of miniatures in the Munich manuscript. So far, then, what we know is that this is in regard of colour, text and spacing the closest copy of the spirensis. There were also investigations made with art-historical method, showing that the colour etc. on M2 is the closest one to what was typical at the time when the spirensis was made.
Unfortunately I do not have a electronic copy, but I highly recommend a read.
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
