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(05-04-2019, 08:42 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Getting back to the Collection of alchemical, technical, medical, magic and divinatory tracts posted by Paris, the magic characters remind me of some of the Liber de quindecim stellis which describes the virtues of fifteen stars, stones, herbs and magic characters. I've seen these characters in the book Magic in medieval manuscripts by Sophie Page. One of them is very similar to one of the Voynich, the extended Eva-t.
The one that looks like EVA-t has a very old history. In the Middle East, in areas where talismanic incantations were very common, it was one of the characters used for divination and to repel devils.
I think the resemblance to EVA-t might be coincidental, however. The talismanic signs all were basically constructed of lines with small loops at the end and were drawn this way to represent angelic influence, in books of magic and kabbalah that came into the west.