27-03-2016, 07:22 PM
david - you are definitely right that there being two, and their relative position, is a strong argument in favor of "eyes". The only reason why I could see two vaginas being depicted is like EV suggests, that the plant is supposed to induce a change. The bottom one is larger and "swollen" while the top one appears to be bleeding up the stem of the plant. The blood, interestingly, comes from what would be the eye's pupil. You know...
My main problem with eyes is that especially the pupils aren't drawn like circles at all. I see in those much more an evocation of the female anatomy than an eye. I still see both as possibilities.
Marco - I agree with the "Latin" direction of interpretation, which, to me, seems much more likely than German. "Mellior" is definitely a possibility as well, especially since some correcting has clearly been done on the first vowel. It's also a word one might expect there.
Anton - I agree that marginalia don't have to match the text, but it doesn't seem methodologically wrong to me to assume some connection. This doesn't look like as much like a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as some other marginalia. I think in Voynich studies, the assumption that the marginalia don't match the rest of the text is relatively strong since well, it's the Voynich manuscript.
My main problem with eyes is that especially the pupils aren't drawn like circles at all. I see in those much more an evocation of the female anatomy than an eye. I still see both as possibilities.
Marco - I agree with the "Latin" direction of interpretation, which, to me, seems much more likely than German. "Mellior" is definitely a possibility as well, especially since some correcting has clearly been done on the first vowel. It's also a word one might expect there.
Anton - I agree that marginalia don't have to match the text, but it doesn't seem methodologically wrong to me to assume some connection. This doesn't look like as much like a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as some other marginalia. I think in Voynich studies, the assumption that the marginalia don't match the rest of the text is relatively strong since well, it's the Voynich manuscript.