14-06-2017, 05:24 PM
Quote:Well, the VMs is not an original work in the sense of the word, there must have been sources as in nearly all medieva works, but I feel sure it is not a copy in the sense of the word as well and I have done some thinking what the sources could have been for some time.
Helmut, you have said exactly what I think, and I am sure many more think the same.
HOWEVER - the sources are so disparate across space and time, that I sometimes feel the scribe would have had to have access to the library of Alexandra to collate them all*. Would any 15th century notable - I think we can assume the author would have been a highly educated, albeit not necessarily famous person - have had access to such a varied range of influences and manuscripts? Or are we to assume him to have been highly travelled?
*Or, as one notable Voynich researcher would interject, access to 20th century research mediums. I mention this only because it is a valid observation to my question.