13-02-2016, 03:35 PM
Don, when I speak of traditions, I mean a lineage for a given form.
So for example, the Irish and Gallo-Celtic tradition for what had originally been the Latin triton-type, turned it into first a lovely two-tailed mer-person, and then into the somewhat breathtaking "Shiela na gig".
You don't find that version in China, and is you did you'd know an Irishman had been that way. That form is from the Irish tradition; the more reticent from Europe, son of Rome, son of Carthage..
That's what I mean by a 'tradition' for a particular type of image.
The sort of references I use don't tend to be online.
We can't add attachments either, can we?
All I can do is offer book references, which I'm happy to provide if they're of any use to you.
One which might be online somewhere is Kircher's China Illustrata, which contains a very fine example of the type from which I think the Voynich figure derives; I've done a fair bit of research to see how it fits into other evidence offered by the manuscript, and thanks to your work on those astrolabes, it all comes together very neatly in the time and sphere of influence of Avignon.
I concluded that - as someone else recently said - the figure was probably inspired by Matsuya, though Coptic images of Jonah are not impossible.
The comparative illustrations are on my old blog, though, because the basic research into this folio was done yonks ago (2010-2011).
Which is not to say it's not worth re-investigating; if you hadn't re-investigated the question of the months' orthography we couldn't have pin-pointed it so exactly.
So for example, the Irish and Gallo-Celtic tradition for what had originally been the Latin triton-type, turned it into first a lovely two-tailed mer-person, and then into the somewhat breathtaking "Shiela na gig".
You don't find that version in China, and is you did you'd know an Irishman had been that way. That form is from the Irish tradition; the more reticent from Europe, son of Rome, son of Carthage..
That's what I mean by a 'tradition' for a particular type of image.
The sort of references I use don't tend to be online.
We can't add attachments either, can we?
All I can do is offer book references, which I'm happy to provide if they're of any use to you.
One which might be online somewhere is Kircher's China Illustrata, which contains a very fine example of the type from which I think the Voynich figure derives; I've done a fair bit of research to see how it fits into other evidence offered by the manuscript, and thanks to your work on those astrolabes, it all comes together very neatly in the time and sphere of influence of Avignon.
I concluded that - as someone else recently said - the figure was probably inspired by Matsuya, though Coptic images of Jonah are not impossible.
The comparative illustrations are on my old blog, though, because the basic research into this folio was done yonks ago (2010-2011).
Which is not to say it's not worth re-investigating; if you hadn't re-investigated the question of the months' orthography we couldn't have pin-pointed it so exactly.