29-06-2017, 09:25 PM
I also find it hard to see it as anything else than a finial. I think this is the case because bulbous structures are common in Voynich architecture (and containers 
).
Marco, that's a good point about those crosses in the marginalia. It's strange though... We have a manuscript with an unusual lack of clear christian imagery. Even if the cross held by the q13 nymph is a Cross, then one must still admit that its context is rather unusual.
So in the manuscript's contents we have a disconnect from christian tradition, and, in my opinion, various scenes which would need some explaining if they came under the priest's eyes, as a matter of speech.
Then why, suddenly, in the marginalia, does the scribe feel the need to Christianize his phrase by adding crosses? The person who wrote this marginalia clearly had a normal, common reflex which points directly and unambiguously to the medieval christian tradition.
I see two options:
1) The person who wrote the marginal text with the crosses was in fact not involved in creating the manuscript.
2) The person was involved, but as a scribe or copyist, not as a creative mind behind the contents.
I say so because this one marginal note shows a cultural reflex which is largely missing from the rest of the manuscript.
).Marco, that's a good point about those crosses in the marginalia. It's strange though... We have a manuscript with an unusual lack of clear christian imagery. Even if the cross held by the q13 nymph is a Cross, then one must still admit that its context is rather unusual.
So in the manuscript's contents we have a disconnect from christian tradition, and, in my opinion, various scenes which would need some explaining if they came under the priest's eyes, as a matter of speech.
Then why, suddenly, in the marginalia, does the scribe feel the need to Christianize his phrase by adding crosses? The person who wrote this marginalia clearly had a normal, common reflex which points directly and unambiguously to the medieval christian tradition.
I see two options:
1) The person who wrote the marginal text with the crosses was in fact not involved in creating the manuscript.
2) The person was involved, but as a scribe or copyist, not as a creative mind behind the contents.
I say so because this one marginal note shows a cultural reflex which is largely missing from the rest of the manuscript.