13-04-2016, 07:17 PM
Thanks Marco P, that is interesting to know! Should have read the paper more closely 
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Anyway, I just wanted to emphasize that the iconography I was hoping to explore here is finding ladies, not gentlemen, clutching rings and not holding them daintily between two fingers, but brandished in a fist as they are in the Voynich.
There are numerous examples of medieval illustrations of men holding oversized rings, notably in heraldic crests from Spain and Portugal, but I did not include them because they are men.
Another incidence is the illustration of jewelry-making, such as here in an Italian c.1465 version of Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis (Victoria & Albert Museum, Msl/1896/1504): (bottom right)
![[Image: 6f0ebf5bfa83308306bd7dd3231db742.jpg]](https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/vam-blog/dp-content/6f0ebf5bfa83308306bd7dd3231db742.jpg)
But to me, this is irrelevant as well...
...Anyway, I just wanted to emphasize that the iconography I was hoping to explore here is finding ladies, not gentlemen, clutching rings and not holding them daintily between two fingers, but brandished in a fist as they are in the Voynich.
There are numerous examples of medieval illustrations of men holding oversized rings, notably in heraldic crests from Spain and Portugal, but I did not include them because they are men.
Another incidence is the illustration of jewelry-making, such as here in an Italian c.1465 version of Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis (Victoria & Albert Museum, Msl/1896/1504): (bottom right)
But to me, this is irrelevant as well...