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Posted by: dashstofsk - 04-03-2024, 10:06 AM - Forum: Physical material
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Has anyone raised the opinion that the manuscript might be a collection of separate manuscripts that were written at different times, and were then bound into one so as to keep them all together? I have some ideas on this but I am not sure whether it has been debated before.
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| Codes by the Bishop of Brescia |
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Posted by: Hermes777 - 03-03-2024, 08:29 PM - Forum: Analysis of the text
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This might be of interest to those looking for ciphers and codes in the relevant period and might add to what we know of the literary culture.
I have not yet accessed this recent research. As we know, the Vaticanus graecus 1291 (Ptolemy's Canones), noted for a possible link to the Voynich, was kept by the bishops of Brescia. New documents reveal codes by Francesco Marerio, bishop during the relevant window.
The translation of the abstract is poor, but "open to humanistic innovations also in the graphic field" is an enticing statement worth pursuing, in the context. It suggests a culture of experimentalism.
Has anyone accessed this work or know of Bishop Marerio's interests in "codes" and "humanistic innovations also in the graphic field" or shed any light on Marerio?
Il vescovo di Brescia Francesco Marerio e i suoi codici
The bishop of Brescia Francesco Marerio and his codes
Carla Maria Monti
Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] The article reconstructs the biography of Francesco Marerio, and in particular the events linked to his long Brescia bishopric, with the help of new archival documentation and the unpublished testimony of a literary work, the Itinerarium by Bartolomeo Baiguera. The Appendix provides the edition of the 96 final verses of the long poem dedicated to the prelate. The three codes identified so far belonging to Marerio, one of which [he] autographs, are also studied, which provide significant clues about his culture, open to humanistic innovations also in the graphic field.
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| I think the stars are souls |
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Posted by: pjburkshire - 29-02-2024, 01:36 AM - Forum: Imagery
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I have been studying the images off and on for a couple of years now and I have come up with some ideas. I think it is a religious medical manual; from conception to the afterlife. I think the stars are souls. I think the Cosmology Section that starts at Image # 121 is a representation of Heaven for souls before they are born.
I think it has to do with the Zodiac and the time of conception and/or birth. I think it is using both the phase of the Moon as well as the time of the year by the Sun. I think all those stars are souls that are waiting to be born.
Starting with Image # 135 it is talking about conception and pregnancy and about how the soul enters the mother's body.
In the upper right of Image # 138 is a man casting out seeds – a symbol of fertility.
Go to Ensoulment, Ancient_Greeks on Wikipedia and you will see the steps the soul goes through. Image # 138 shows these steps; vegetable, then animal and only later becoming human. The nymph images on the left are showing these steps. The top nymph is holding a plant. The next a bird. The third transforms into human.
Image # 144 is a warning that pregnancy is only for within holy marriage. The top nymph is holding a cross. The next is holding a wedding ring. The demons at the bottom are a warning that a man should not waste his seed outside of procreation in marriage.
Image # 149 shows the star-soul leaving Heaven and entering the mother's body. Again a nymph at the bottom is holding a wedding ring.
I think starting at Image # 156 shows the path from birth, through life (the Sun) and then to death (the Moon) and then to the afterlife.
I think Image # 158 is a map of the levels of Heaven.
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| Rings of the Nymphs |
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Posted by: Hermes777 - 27-02-2024, 02:14 AM - Forum: News
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New posts at my Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Continued studies of Voynichese, as well as new posts on some imagery, including the latest on the rings of the nymphs:
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| Voynich Manuscript Day - Researcher Presentation Submissions Now Open |
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Posted by: merrimacga - 23-02-2024, 11:51 AM - Forum: News
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In October 2023, a poll was conducted here to select a date for this site to establish an annual Voynich Manuscript Day observance (or VM Day for short). The date selected was 4 August and the first observance will be this year.
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| Kolam and the looping gallows |
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Posted by: Hermes777 - 21-02-2024, 11:06 PM - Forum: News
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Another installment of posts at my Voynich You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
This post tackles the phenomenon of the looping gallows found in places in the text.
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| The glyphs re-ordered? |
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Posted by: dfs346 - 20-02-2024, 08:13 AM - Forum: Analysis of the text
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Here are some further thoughts on Zattera's "slot alphabet" and its corollary hypothesis: that in nearly every Voynich "word", the glyphs were re-ordered according to some prescribed sequence.
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| A spoken language? |
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Posted by: Hermes777 - 19-02-2024, 08:35 PM - Forum: News
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Further updates at my blog in recent days. Explorations of Voynichese using a 'paradigm' approach. By extension, the text as cosmological.
In the most recent You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I stop to consider the question of whether the language can be spoken?
"Any account of the Voynich language as a mechanically generated artifact must also explain all aspects of its naturalness."
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