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Was it a picture of a container of some sort? And was it marked by vertical lines, and (not so vital) was blue included in the 'runny' bit?
If you find it again, I hope you'll come back to the thread and post a pic.
You're right about the common colours for sancai (which means 'three colours' I believe), but the interesting things about the detail from the Vms is that there's no sign of runny paint; it's not watercolour in that sense. And the colours include blue - which isn't one of the more common sancai colours. I must check if it was used in the earlier phase of Byzantine-territory sancai.
On its own of course it would be nothing except another possibility. When added to the - quite respectable - number of instances where the most elegant explanation is Asian influence, it does take on a certain depth of significance.
Which is why I thought it worth bothering everyone with. If it is sancai being pictured, it melds perfectly with much else in the manuscript... as for example the form for the Phoenix, the inclusion of the unmistakeable 'lotus' motif on f.33v, etc.etc.etc. I've been turning up this sort of pointer from the primary source now for almost a decade. Naturally, the first few were passed over; the next lot dismissed as co-incidence, the following lot as a possibility worth further investigation... now it's got beyond rationalisation and clinging to the wreck of the 1912 diaster that was the Voynich story.
Well, for me and a small number of people who read - or rather who admit they read before parroting - the conclusions of my work.
I guess in all about 5 people.
Was it a picture of a container of some sort? And was it marked by vertical lines, and (not so vital) was blue included in the 'runny' bit?
If you find it again, I hope you'll come back to the thread and post a pic.
You're right about the common colours for sancai (which means 'three colours' I believe), but the interesting things about the detail from the Vms is that there's no sign of runny paint; it's not watercolour in that sense. And the colours include blue - which isn't one of the more common sancai colours. I must check if it was used in the earlier phase of Byzantine-territory sancai.
On its own of course it would be nothing except another possibility. When added to the - quite respectable - number of instances where the most elegant explanation is Asian influence, it does take on a certain depth of significance.
Which is why I thought it worth bothering everyone with. If it is sancai being pictured, it melds perfectly with much else in the manuscript... as for example the form for the Phoenix, the inclusion of the unmistakeable 'lotus' motif on f.33v, etc.etc.etc. I've been turning up this sort of pointer from the primary source now for almost a decade. Naturally, the first few were passed over; the next lot dismissed as co-incidence, the following lot as a possibility worth further investigation... now it's got beyond rationalisation and clinging to the wreck of the 1912 diaster that was the Voynich story.
Well, for me and a small number of people who read - or rather who admit they read before parroting - the conclusions of my work.
I guess in all about 5 people.