24-02-2025, 05:41 AM
(23-02-2025, 11:20 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Now consider that ink is applied with a big ol feather they took from a bird. Onto the slightly uneven skin of a calf. These dots are the smallest markings they were able to make. Simply a touch of the quill tip. This tip is cut to a specific shape, it doesn't usually make perfectly round dots. So this is what you get when someone uses one part of an animal to apply ink to a part of another animal.
There is no microscopic writing in the VM - just the expected unevenness.
When I started to deal with VM I was thinking that I had to deal with an experienced herbalist, as I began to read some extracts of the plants.
Later on, I understood that this work is not only an innocent's healer work, it is the work of the most sophisticated alchemist society...
Do you know that Jakub Horcicky z Tepence, owner and user of this manuscript, was contemporary (and very probably friend through the court of Rudolf the II) with Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the creator of the first human robot in the history of mankind- "GOLEM".
These people, called alchemists were centuries ahead of their time. We should not underestimate their capabilities and surely they could write thinner than the width of a feather-point.
And surely they did use magnifying glass- Tycho Brahe and Kepler- being also in Rudolf's society...
The whole sense of my answer here is that we should not look with simplified glance at the possibilities of the man or people who created this manuscript.
br: Vessy