The Voynich Ninja

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Houppelande with bag-sleeves:

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Ha, that's cool Searcher. The one on the left has really got the "short legs" effect going on 
It seems that because the belt isn't always too tight, it will sometimes hang down and visually lower the waist.

I think a tunic with a low waistline can account for some of the images, but not all of them. If the size of the head is taken into account, as well, the legs are definitely short on at least some of the figures.

Koen, I should have done this before I made my blog live, I'm in too much of a hurry when I'm strapped for time, but I've been trying to confirm that the three short-leggged figures are from the Picatrix.

I can't find an original source anywhere, just endless repeats of the same image posted on different blogs. I'm beginning to wonder if it was miscredited, because it's not included in the Warburg pdf (at least I didn't see it after scanning through the document three times) and the Warburg Institute materials are usually pretty good.

So either I'm missing something, or something is amiss.

JKP: they are, within the same manuscript. Only, this one drawing is somewhere in the main body of the book, while all the other (nicer) drawings are clustered at the end. Everybody always focuses on the clean drawings, of course, but as Voynich researchers we have a thing for oddballs I guess  

I remember spending a long time trying to find the answer to this same question. After a while I was able to confirm that indeed, they are in the same manuscript. It's just hard to believe because they are so different.

(06-07-2017, 07:40 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Koen, I should have done this before I made my blog live, I'm in too much of a hurry when I'm strapped for time, but I've been trying to confirm that the three short-leggged figures are from the Picatrix.

I can't find an original source anywhere, just endless repeats of the same image posted on different blogs. I'm beginning to wonder if it was miscredited, because it's not included in the Warburg pdf (at least I didn't see it after scanning through the document three times) and the Warburg Institute materials are usually pretty good.

So either I'm missing something, or something is amiss.

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(also linked in post 6 above)

Thanks, Marco, but I'm trying to find the original drawing, not references to it.

I paged through a couple of online copies of the Picatrix and I cannot find the three-figure drawing. I'm beginning to wonder if these drawings came from another document. Either that, or the online copies are incomplete or I'm hallucinating that it's not there.

What I remember when I looked into this is that the drawing was part of Biblioteka Jagiellońska, BJ Rkp. 793, yet the only illustration in this style, and the only one separate from the "nice" illustrations.

I am 90% sure that I confirmed this by browsing through the online edition here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
But it's been a while and you're making me doubt. Unfortunately their reader sucks and I'm having the greatest difficulty getting it to work, I'll probably have to try another browser.

Reconfirmed, page 363 in the reader:
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