15-03-2016, 01:12 PM
This is one of so many things that nobody knows for sure.
The only safe approach is to keep the various different possibilities in mind.
Of course everyone can see that the painting is really bad in many places.
What is less obvious is that the outline drawings in ink (at least for the herbal part) are in many cases
quite detailed. Still, also this has been observed by many people independently.
There's a nice herbal (pseudo-Apuleius, 10th C, France) that remained unpainted, here:
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At least one of the alchemical herbals has painting that is as sloppy as that in the Voynich MS (Paris BN Lat 17844).
The only safe approach is to keep the various different possibilities in mind.
Of course everyone can see that the painting is really bad in many places.
What is less obvious is that the outline drawings in ink (at least for the herbal part) are in many cases
quite detailed. Still, also this has been observed by many people independently.
There's a nice herbal (pseudo-Apuleius, 10th C, France) that remained unpainted, here:
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At least one of the alchemical herbals has painting that is as sloppy as that in the Voynich MS (Paris BN Lat 17844).