06-11-2019, 06:40 PM
(06-11-2019, 07:41 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Something I try to keep in mind when I look at medieval drawings is that pattern was very prevalent at the time. Everything was hand-crafted and artisans were often creative.
So, sometimes a row of columns on a building or in a manuscript will be designed so that each column has a different pattern, even though all the columns have the same function.
In the VMS, I tend to assume different patterns might have different meanings (just in case they do), but I am not certain this is true.
Yes, I am inclined to the view that some of the patterns that we see in the Voynich are just decorations and no more than that. For example, as I may discuss more elsewhere, I think the asterisks * that we see all over the 9 Rosette page, not only in the central rosette, are not stars as has been suggested, but merely decorations. I am inclined to the view that the 3 different patterns that we see on the left, right and bottom "rays" are most likely just decorations, but I want to be open to the possibility that they may not be. When it comes to the rings/loops I find it hard to believe, especially in the case of the two dots, that the author did not have something in his/her mind given the specificity, these are not just simple geometric design patterns.