(26-01-2019, 04:30 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are objects in the kitchen illustrations below that strike me as somewhat similar to these pipe things, with the three rows of "dots" and the way the upper and lower edges are depicted.
They are on the tables, to the right in both illustrations. These are more recent than the Voynich. I don't know where the first one is from, the Pinterest source just said Milan 1490.
Are they just some type of albarello? If not, what is their purpose?
A cheesegrater? That top one is next to what could be a wheel of cheese.
I believe these small tubes in the vms not to be items per se, but rather part of an explanation of geothermic springs.
Precipitation falls on the mountains, the water goes underground and gets heated within the tubes, then finds its way up again and is known as a hot spring. I think the dots mean the tubes are porous.
I place this particular set in Lesbos, the two gulfs are drawn. There is a hot spring near each today.
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This similar thing is described as a sugar grater:
![[Image: sugar_grater.gif]](http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/sugar_grater.gif)
From this collection of medieval kitchen implements.
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But this is from 1570. I don't think sugar would have been available in this format in the early 15th century, so probably nothing to do with the vm. But could be linked to your woodcut