06-10-2018, 07:55 PM
There are a lot of things in the Tacuinum Sanitatis that resonate Voynichwise, but Koen, I've never compared those two specific drawings side-by-side, and I think you are right about the expression. It's difficult not to notice the similarity when they are next to each other.
You know what really strikes me about these two "pear" drawings?
Many things in the VMS give me the feeling the person creating it was trying to combine two or three or more "things" (whatever they may be, text, ideas, pictures) into one—I always get the sense of a methodical mind, that is GATHERING and CODIFYING information (Ramon Llul's diagrams frequently come to mind as doing something similar) and this VMS "pear" drawing really gives that impression also... so let's say for a moment they really are related, that these really are pears...
in the Tacuinum she is holding pears in one hand and stretching with the other, reaching for another pear. In the VMS, she's stretching and holding pears with the same hand which FEELS so typically VMS... and... doing it this way leaves the other hand free to express something else---killing several birds with one stone (which we can now call picking several pears with one hand).
If these are connected, specifically connected (I already think there's a connection to the TS, but this is on a detail level that hasn't really been explored in full), it's a real find, an excellent observation.
You know what really strikes me about these two "pear" drawings?
Many things in the VMS give me the feeling the person creating it was trying to combine two or three or more "things" (whatever they may be, text, ideas, pictures) into one—I always get the sense of a methodical mind, that is GATHERING and CODIFYING information (Ramon Llul's diagrams frequently come to mind as doing something similar) and this VMS "pear" drawing really gives that impression also... so let's say for a moment they really are related, that these really are pears...
in the Tacuinum she is holding pears in one hand and stretching with the other, reaching for another pear. In the VMS, she's stretching and holding pears with the same hand which FEELS so typically VMS... and... doing it this way leaves the other hand free to express something else---killing several birds with one stone (which we can now call picking several pears with one hand).
If these are connected, specifically connected (I already think there's a connection to the TS, but this is on a detail level that hasn't really been explored in full), it's a real find, an excellent observation.