13-04-2016, 07:48 AM
Just my take - I spent a fair while on this theme, and what the motifs meant in the context of each page where they appear and came to the conclusion that the 'umbrella' is a form which was more important for its significance than its appearance. As art historians say it isn't a "picture of" but a "picture about" the subject.
I spoke of the two central objects as the 'peg' and 'pole' (actually I first called the peg a stud, but my blog received an awful lot of advertising material, so I changed the term).
I won't repeat here the conclusions I reached. Anyone who cares to see the part I repeated at voynichimagery can search for the folio number. I should say that in those earlier years, I used the now-outdated Yale "Voynich gallery" foliation (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), which is not the same as the later scans posted on the Beinecke library site, nor the foliation used on the old Voynich mailing list and still, sometimes, used by Voynich writers.
I spoke of the two central objects as the 'peg' and 'pole' (actually I first called the peg a stud, but my blog received an awful lot of advertising material, so I changed the term).
I won't repeat here the conclusions I reached. Anyone who cares to see the part I repeated at voynichimagery can search for the folio number. I should say that in those earlier years, I used the now-outdated Yale "Voynich gallery" foliation (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.), which is not the same as the later scans posted on the Beinecke library site, nor the foliation used on the old Voynich mailing list and still, sometimes, used by Voynich writers.