20-12-2016, 08:37 AM
I find this section of the manuscript very hard to interpret in terms of how the image evolved and where and when it's from. These folios have the most medieval air about them, in my opinion, together with the rosettes foldout. I'm not sure of much, so only some loose comments:
- Last time I mentioned this people disagreed, but I insist that he has six fingers.
- I have come to understand that hair style is the best indicator for gender. This is the Voynich male hair style. The breast could be some awkwardly drawn piece of his clothing, or like JKP says some basic Voynich androgyny. It is indeed true that in some Roman era work, for example, it is hard to see the difference between breast and pectoral muscles. Add in a confused copyist and you've got a bunch of men with boobs.
- I'm having a hard time connecting figures like this one to for example Q13. Yes, the style has been equalized, but the way the face is drawn... it still looks and feels different.
- Last time I mentioned this people disagreed, but I insist that he has six fingers.
- I have come to understand that hair style is the best indicator for gender. This is the Voynich male hair style. The breast could be some awkwardly drawn piece of his clothing, or like JKP says some basic Voynich androgyny. It is indeed true that in some Roman era work, for example, it is hard to see the difference between breast and pectoral muscles. Add in a confused copyist and you've got a bunch of men with boobs.
- I'm having a hard time connecting figures like this one to for example Q13. Yes, the style has been equalized, but the way the face is drawn... it still looks and feels different.