Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

On the other hand, it is obvious that you haven't bothered to find out what your interlocutor actually has written about the Voynich on his blog, and this cannot lead to a fruitful discussion.

VViews,

Before getting a chance to visit JP's blog, I clicked on a link at the bottom of your post and was taken to a web page called "The Purse of the Voynich?", where I saw a version of this drawing:



It looks pretty obvious to me that this gal is holding an animal hide in her left hand so I don't know why it was claimed to be a purse, which, I believe, is a handbag often carried by women.

Note that the "purse" has red coloring, the color of a carcass as seen here:



Note that the "purse" has spots, just like a spotted jaguar as seen here:



Actually, this jaguar, like the hybrid mermaid above, is a hybrid jaguar with alligator head, but the "purse" is only the jaguar. Note that gal has her right hand raised in a sign of triumph over the predator animal: Got ya!

The gal holding the hide is standing in a bucket of blue water, signaling pure rainwater used for cleaning as seen here:



A critical step in making parchment (or clothing) is to extensively wash the hide in clean water.

Note also that the gals were well-trained in preparing animal hides:



The gal on the right has just been taught how to clean animal hides and she is dreaming of making herself a skirt.

The medieval instrument she is holding in her right hand was used to clean animal hides. She is holding it in the middle but to use it they would grab each handle at the ends and use the curved blade to scrape the hide.

I think it is an open and shut case: the "purse" is an animal hide. Moreover, there were no stores in the Louisiana swamps and hence no place for these gals to go shopping. They didn't even need clothing, then why a purse?