23-10-2019, 08:13 AM
(23-10-2019, 06:17 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But the truth is that these symbols are unrecognisable.
That is why I doubt it's a colour annotation. The other ones, like the various "rot" are easy to recognize, and any doubts we have about the reading of individual letters are the same we would have in a regular MS.
This, on the other hand, requires much more coercion. Of course, it does so with any interpretation. But the advantage of IHS is that it was often written in some distorted way, with flourishes underneath and a crossbar on top, addition or omission of connections between the various strokes.
This is certainly not a correct rendering of any IHS form (or YHS as Bernardino preferred), but it might be an attempt, or an intentionally masked version. I know I'm deep into theorist territory now, but if there is hidden Christian symbolism in the VM then it's, well, hidden, so they couldn't write a huge Christogram across a sunburst shape.