Transcription problem - f68v3 and Rosettes foldout

[Mark Knowles]

Agreed i do not have proof of the wilderness part, it is a function of having understood the right side to be the habitable known world. Still looking since as i say i think it is important we get it right.

Mark you did indeed predict my thoughts on the german version. Also i note the elements map part shows fire below air, i think again this is secular understanding supplanting the Aristolean ordering. Fire is of course known to us on the ground, and invisible heavenly fire is a more difficult concept to visualize especially if it is no longer taught as such.

I understand what you are saying about the wording, that continents are expected. But it would be at odds with drawing an Oresme-like cosmos, unless it is simply to pull in all the various other incarnations thereof, ie to make you look it up and thereby get the history lesson along the way. It could be like a 'further reading' mnemonic.

Thanks for your reply!

Obviously for me, and I daresay you, the point I am trying to get to is one where one can argue what the text in the f68v3 T/O that has the half slice at the point and the Rosettes T/O where the half slice is at the top i.e. the other way round. My inclination, as you know, is to say that in both cases we have an Africa-Europe-Asia T/O map though in the case of the f68v3 the bottom half contains some kind of list of places in Asia.

As, obviously, text identification is of great value in Voynich research, so as to develop some kind of crib and observe textual patterns.

Whether the f68v3 drawing in the Voynich is derived from the Oresme or similar drawing is clearly open to debate. Certainly it has a number of visual similarities, but then it is often the case that people can find many possible visual parallels when conducting Voynich research that may not actually be parallel.

Clearly if the Oresme is the influence why did the author of the Voynich not copy the drawings, but instead write text? Do we have an example of this drawing with text substituted?

It seems that sometimes, from what I can tell, the Africa-Europe-Asia T/O map is taken to represent the whole earth.