15-08-2017, 06:21 AM
Sorry Koen, no comparision was intended! I was just bringing people's attention to a similar phenomen that had been discussed in the past.
I'm always suspicious of these facial claims, it is very easy to project pareidolia onto the manuscript. This is-it isn't-it discussions are completely out of character for medieval discussions and it's simply too easy for us to project our own ideas onto vague abstracts.
I've never come across an outline of a face like the one in the vine. I'm not saying it's not a face, but it could be random, or a snake, or whatever we want it to be. There's no way of knowing unless we firmly project our own prejudice upon it.
Even the famous You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was hidden underneath text and not within it (surprising how many times this argument was badly deployed in the past when discussing the hidden faces of the VM).
I'm always suspicious of these facial claims, it is very easy to project pareidolia onto the manuscript. This is-it isn't-it discussions are completely out of character for medieval discussions and it's simply too easy for us to project our own ideas onto vague abstracts.
I've never come across an outline of a face like the one in the vine. I'm not saying it's not a face, but it could be random, or a snake, or whatever we want it to be. There's no way of knowing unless we firmly project our own prejudice upon it.
Even the famous You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. was hidden underneath text and not within it (surprising how many times this argument was badly deployed in the past when discussing the hidden faces of the VM).