04-12-2018, 09:39 PM
(04-12-2018, 04:34 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Janick and Tucker's arguments are not well supported.
I read somewhere that foldout pages (of which there are a few sets in the VMS) were unknown in 15th century Europe. How do you explain that?
I looked at 14th and 15th manuscripts on Google images and their drawings appear to be much more elegant than what we see in the VMS. Can the poor quality of VMS drawings be found in other 15th century manuscripts?
I also noticed that European manuscript drawings of the 14th and 15th centuries displayed many religious and military themes with depictions of the Hundred Years War being particularly frequent. Why do we find virtually nothing on those themes in the VMS?
The VMS has an intricate section on herbal medicine. Why do you think we find no signs of awareness of the Black Death (which killed half the population of Europe in the middle of the 14th century) in the VMS?
When you answer these questions, I will prepare another list of questions. Maybe in the end you will come to realize that support for VMS authorship in 15th century Europe is not as strong as you might think.