(08-04-2016, 08:11 PM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....In any case, the Balneis MSs already cited many times are full of more-or-less similar unclothed small figures. These are also not overly loaded with Christian imagery.
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Yes, and also Dante's Divine Comedy (third quarter 14th century).
The VMS bathing images have always struck me as somewhat anti-Dante's Inferno, with the multitudes of nude people smiling and getting healthy instead of writhing at the gates of hell but with a somewhat similar visual approach to the pools and figures.
(08-04-2016, 09:07 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Finally, the Balneis people are random people bathing, while many of the Voynich nymphs are individualized with attributes, but in such a way that they are hard to interpret in Medieval Latin terms.
That aspect has always struck me as rather Pagan. Even in the 15th century, there were many Pagan pockets (the Basques immediately come to mind), who didn't ascribe to the Christian concept of nudity being sinful.