How could we approach the Pharma and Recipes?
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(20-01-2020, 10:49 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do we know of any other items that were linked to the degrees of the Zodiac? I'm not too familiar with this concept.

Two other examples we discussed on the forum are:
  • Alfonso's Astromagia ms You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. This has been mentioned several times on the forum. It likely was the manuscript of which Panofsky thought when he first saw the Voynich zodiac. In this case, each of the 360 paragraphs describes an "image" associated with the degrees. These images were inspired by the parts of constellations (asterisms) located in the corresponding degree. As for the Lapidario, each sign has a full-page illustration with a zodiac medallion at the centre and 30 radial segments. The corresponding 30 text paragraphs precede the illustrations.
  • The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in Ars Paulina. This appears to be later and I am only aware of a list of names: no corresponding paragraphs.

By analogy with the Lapidario and Reg.Lat.1283.a, one can think that the VMS starred-paragraphs correspond to the star-bearing nymphs in the zodiac. I am sure this idea has been mentioned before. IIRC Rene tried matching nymph-labels and star-paragraphs: he did find some consecutive matches (maybe for Pisces?) but nothing systematic enough.

Another option is that the star-paragraphs originally were 365 and that they correspond to the days of the year. At the moment, I am not aware of works with a separate paragraph for each day of the year. Overall, stones and asterisms seem to me a better candidate for Q20. 
Of course, it could be that the paragraphs are totally unrelated with the degrees or the days: they may be 300-something paragraphs about anything.
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RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by -JKP- - 19-01-2020, 11:20 PM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Anton - 19-01-2020, 11:45 PM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Anton - 20-01-2020, 02:24 PM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Anton - 20-01-2020, 12:13 AM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Linda - 19-01-2020, 11:51 PM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Anton - 20-01-2020, 12:26 AM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Anton - 20-01-2020, 12:17 AM
RE: How could we approach the Recipes? - by Linda - 20-01-2020, 12:34 AM
RE: How could we approach the Pharma and Recipes? - by MarcoP - 20-01-2020, 03:16 PM

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