20-03-2016, 07:59 PM
I've come in late here. I gather that there is a tacit argument that Dorrer manuscript is, or could be something to do with MS Beinecke 408, but I don't actually see any evidence that it was.
Is is assumed that by "old writing" is meant not an older style of writing, but an enciphered text using unknown glyphs? Or is it being argued that the Voynich script is a form of old writing once used In Germany?
Sorry, I don't quite get the relevance of this example. With the hundreds of incomplete medieval manuscripts, including ones with pictures of plants in them, what is it about this one that makes it more like the Vms than any other? Is Dorrer's handwriting style, or style of drawing very similar to the Vms'?
These are genuine questions, I really can't see what the two manuscripts are believed to have in common.
Is is assumed that by "old writing" is meant not an older style of writing, but an enciphered text using unknown glyphs? Or is it being argued that the Voynich script is a form of old writing once used In Germany?
Sorry, I don't quite get the relevance of this example. With the hundreds of incomplete medieval manuscripts, including ones with pictures of plants in them, what is it about this one that makes it more like the Vms than any other? Is Dorrer's handwriting style, or style of drawing very similar to the Vms'?
These are genuine questions, I really can't see what the two manuscripts are believed to have in common.