Plant 52r

[Helmut Winkler]

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Helmut: what about the faces in the roots and the clear animal shapes then?
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Koen,

I don't think there is anything special in faces in roots, you find things like that in lots of mss. and I think most of it is ordinary doodling or having fun. And, no offence meant, but I think there is some pareidolia. The Voynich scribe ws not a 'modern' person, I think he had a foot in  'modern' science, in this case the 'Kräuterbücher' and the biology of the early 16th c., but he was late medieval as well. It is what I meant in another thread by ahistorical, many researchers tend to see the ms. seperated  from his historical background.