13-03-2019, 03:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-03-2019, 04:12 PM by Helmut Winkler.)
@ Koen
I don't think we really understand a single part of the ms. from the imagery, there are only parallels to contemporary imagery, which show that it fits into contemporary culture_I mean we have a zodiac, but I don't think there is a understanding of the what and why and something like the bathing part is not intellegible at all
@ VViews
The main sign of use are the marginalia, which should have been written in the generation after the Voynich author-
Parchment is quite robust, signs of physical use are not so common (there ae exceptions like the German Krönungsevangeliar, where you can see where the Emperors kissed the Gospels), the Voynich exceptions are 1r and 116v, which could mean it was not bound for a long time and some stains and there are trimmings (I don't think someone has ever made a list of the obvious trimmings on the lower margins)
I don't think we really understand a single part of the ms. from the imagery, there are only parallels to contemporary imagery, which show that it fits into contemporary culture_I mean we have a zodiac, but I don't think there is a understanding of the what and why and something like the bathing part is not intellegible at all
@ VViews
The main sign of use are the marginalia, which should have been written in the generation after the Voynich author-
Parchment is quite robust, signs of physical use are not so common (there ae exceptions like the German Krönungsevangeliar, where you can see where the Emperors kissed the Gospels), the Voynich exceptions are 1r and 116v, which could mean it was not bound for a long time and some stains and there are trimmings (I don't think someone has ever made a list of the obvious trimmings on the lower margins)