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RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - ReneZ - 04-01-2021
I'm not disagreeing here - I am not at all sure what Q13 is telling us.
There are, however, several important things to keep in mind related to the medieval bathing tradition, and its manuscript tradition:
- Beside the well-known illustrated manuscripts, like the "Balneis Puteolanis", there are many others that are text-only, and not nearly as well known to the Voynich world. (Nick has listed many at one of his Cipher Mysteries blog posts, but I have not delved into this).
- The water in these medicinal baths was there both for external purposes (bathing in it) and internal purposes (drinking it).
- The illustrations in the Balneis are primarily concerned with the bathing part. One can occasionally see someone drinking it too, but this is a detail, and what happens as a result of this drinking is not illustrated.
- I could easily imagine that the Q13 illustrations show both: the bathing part on some folios and the effect-on-the-inner-organs part in some other folios. It could try to illustrate what is only described by text in other manuscripts.
This is just one of many things that I can imagine, so I present it 'for what it is worth'.
Someone familiar with the texts of these bathing manuscripts could surely say more.
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - Searcher - 04-01-2021
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - Searcher - 04-01-2021
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - R. Sale - 04-01-2021
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - Koen G - 05-01-2021
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - -JKP- - 05-01-2021
RE: [split] References to Adam and Eve in Q13 - Koen G - 06-01-2021