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oshfdk · 19-10-2023, 06:36 AM

(18-10-2023, 09:24 PM)R. Sale wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Somewhere between 1488 and 1494, this significant development took place. From the article, it appears this could be due to the influences of Wenzel Faber. Could it be that the 'creation and composition' of the VMs is closer to 1500 than it is to 1450??

I've looked through a few more manuscripts online. It appears that there was particular interest in astronomy in the XV-XVI linked to the growing necessity of a calendar reform. A lot of manuscripts seem to discuss basic astronomy and the planets only to delve deeper into the proper ways of mapping day counts to months. There was a growing pressure to put the Easter computed dates, equinoctes and the calendar dates back in order. I haven't found anything of interest so far, but the following chart from _Johannis de Brunswic computus ecclesiasticus. Johannis a Sacrobosco computus ecclesiasticus_, XIV-XV curiously looks visually similar to the element at the center of f67r2 chart. Only there are 6 petals here, and 8 in the Voynich manuscript. Probably one more item to the list of accidental design convergence.

This chart shows Zodiac, month names and days per month. Something is going on between February and June in the upper left quadrant, showing 30 or 31 days for what is probably May? There is a protrusion though the months band in a shape that wouldn't look out of place in the Voynich MS. Interestingly, the outer band separator, that marks this flexible days assignment, is exactly the same as used on a number of charts in the Voynich manuscript, including f67r2 chart. How common was this way of marking parts of a band? Is it possible, that complex marks on the rim of f67r2 chart relate to day computations for different months of the year? Overall, could the Voynich chart also be a calendar chart?

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