(04-07-2022, 12:33 AM)Hermes777 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Argument: Nicholas of Cusa is the mind behind the Voynich manuscript.
It is likely that Nicholas of Cusa is the mind behind the Voynich manuscript, but I do not consider him the author of text and pictures, but rather his contemporary, Nicholas Kempf, who was great admirer and follower of Nicholas of Cusa (as is evident from the Denis Martin's book about Kempf's work).
1. the date of creation is most likely later than carbon dating, since Kempf wrote his Mystical Theology around 1460. It is documented that prior Nicholas Kempf bought for the Gairach (Jurklošter) Charterhouse a house at Laško where the Carthusians had built and open pool for public baths (Note the sketches of pools - natural and mane made. The land around the house most likely contained the pool of hot healing water).
2. the location of the creation of VM might be northern Italy, since large part of present day Slovenia (medieval Carniola) was under the Church authority of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
3. I, too, recognize a few symbols on the Rosette page, such as lighted candle (symbol of Valdensians), an image of the Princes' stone (Carinthian national symbol, where Carinthian princes and dukes were installed up to 1415 in Slovenian language), the Carthusian symbol (in the top right corner), the image of the church/castle looks very much like the Gairach (Jurklošter) Charterhouse, including the watch towers on the side. The other church with three stipples looks like the Benedictine monastery of Laach See in Rhineland, allied with the Basel Council and of special importance to Kempf, because it was near his birth place (Strasbourg).
4. The nymphs also appear in slovenian folk traditions, but I do not regard those images as nymphs, but rather as souls who in Slovenian and Latin are of feminine gender.
5. The herb gathering tradition was not exclusive to the Ladin people; the flowers were collected all over Europe, for healing and for warding off evil spirits. The Church had special days assigned for blessing the flowers, and special religious formulas. I believe the flowers in the VM are used metaphorically for esoteric communication of the humanistic artists. The medieval writers related the poetry to Tartarians (Cathars and other religious movements). It was Dante who started using the floral symbolism to express his ideas in the plain site, but invisible to those who did not understand this symbolism. Gabriele Rosseti explain that Tartarians were related to Emperor Frederick and Prestor John. He aluded that Tartarians used the language in which Flowers also mean other things. This can certainly be true for Slovenian language in which the word CVET (flower) also sounds like SVET (the world), SVET (holy), SVET, SVETLOBA (light) etc.
6. I agree that the text and the language is not artificially created, but written in phonemic orthology (as it is spoken, since for all practical purposes the Slovenian language at the time was not written. The vocabulary in grammar of the VM conforms to Slovenian language
7. My proposed author Nicholas Kempf was highly educated (masters degree from the Vienna University), and self-educated. For several years he was a prior of the Charterhouse at Geming, and for over 20 years as a prior of Jurklošter (Slovenia). As such, he had plenty of opportunities to meet and keep in touch with great European humanists, and read their work, since the Charterhouse of Seitz (Žiče, Slovenia), had at the time the second largest library in Europe.
8. Slovenian town of Bled belonged to the bishops of Brixen.
The Llullian circles and plant drawings were not exclusive to Nicholas of Cusa. They were very popular and widely imitated in the Middle Ages.
Nicholas Kempf was also great European Christian humanist, mystic, poet, philosopher, theologian,but unlike Nicholas of Cusa, he did not change his attitude towards the Basel Council and Church reforms; he was advocating the use of vernacular languages in liturgy, as Slavs were doing from the 9th century on. It is also possible that he sympathized with the Hussites. This might be the reason why he is almost unknown and why only 5 of his over 30 works have been preserved (in copies only, no original).
Slovenian language in the middle of the 15th century was better known by the names of different dialects (Carinthian, Carniolan, Slovenian), but they were already distinct from different Slavic languages. Slovenian was also spoken in parts of Tyrol, Veneto and Friuli. One of the oldest Slovenian codices written in Latin letters was created in 1497 in Čedad (Cividale).
These are just a few historical notes I made regarding the VM.
