20-04-2017, 07:56 AM
As regards the particular image of the oak and ivy I asked about, I think there is little doubt that it is from Masson 116.
The more interesting question (for me) is where this picture was found :-)
Only a few digital images of the MS are known to me.
This version of the illustration looks very similar to that in Sloane 4016, and in Munich Clm 28531 for that matter:
The Paris illustration is somewhat different, and more similar to the Voynich image.
The Paris MS was reportedly in the Visconti library in Pavia, at the time when the Voynich MS was written.
However, Toresella challenges this, and I am also beginning to doubt it.
It remains a very thin trail to the origin of the Voynich MS, but this is still a little bit more than nothing.
The more interesting question (for me) is where this picture was found :-)
Only a few digital images of the MS are known to me.
This version of the illustration looks very similar to that in Sloane 4016, and in Munich Clm 28531 for that matter:
The Paris illustration is somewhat different, and more similar to the Voynich image.
The Paris MS was reportedly in the Visconti library in Pavia, at the time when the Voynich MS was written.
However, Toresella challenges this, and I am also beginning to doubt it.
It remains a very thin trail to the origin of the Voynich MS, but this is still a little bit more than nothing.