The Voynich Ninja

(13-01-2026, 12:03 AM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..] only the degree of our own conviction... 

Quite right, but there are several grades of conviction: I prefer the more prooveables...

(Byzantine Doctor's Clothing: Universitaria gr. 3632, folio 255v. Serapion with medicine jar (left); assistant with mortar and pestle (center); Praxagoras (right); 15th c.)

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It also includes:

• a page with labelled cylindrical jars
  
• astronomical diagrams
  
• geomancy
  
• something like "starred paragarphs" (colored circlets instead of stars as paragraph markers)
  
• a bestiary
  
• an illustrated herbal
  

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about (two pages from) the ms.

(21-01-2026, 06:26 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It also includes:

• A You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (page 14v)
  

(21-01-2026, 06:26 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Click on "mirador" for full scans of Bologna ms. 3632 (15th century).

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It also includes:

• a page with labelled cylindrical jars
  
• astronomical diagrams
  
• geomancy
  
• something like "starred paragarphs" (colored circlets instead of stars as paragraph markers)
  
• a bestiary
  
• an illustrated herbal
  

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. about (two pages from) the ms.

This highly interesting MS has come up a few times before, see also here:
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and subsequent posts.

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Granted, these are 7 vessels. But I liked their arrangement. And the stars, and the style of the cloud band.

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One could reconstruct half of Q13 and the rosettes from just this MS.

The "wolkenband" is quite like this example from Hagenau.

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The VMs "wolkenband" has the difference that the running 'ripple effect' goes up and down the sidewalls, not just on the bulbous extremities.

Do we consider these onion domed? It's from a different Taccola manuscript: De Machinas

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I'd say they're just dome-domed ;)

I also haven't seen any swallow-tailed merlons in his work, so I think it's likely the VM got its buildings from elsewhere.

(30-01-2026, 08:59 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I also haven't seen any swallow-tailed merlons in his work, so I think it's likely the VM got its buildings from elsewhere.

This actually does not matter. When people copied buildings, they would change such details at will.
A perfect example of this is the walled garden in the Tractatus de Herbis tradition, which has straight crenellations in the southern manuscripts, which are changed to swallow-tailed in the Milanese Sloane copy.

Rosenwald6 has an onion dome and Rosenwald5 many swallowtail merlons. But they are rather late copies of Vegetius' De rei militari
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