02-07-2020, 07:05 AM
Thank you Barbrey for your comments.
I don't think there is a sophisticated philosophy in the VM. It just reflects the average culture of its time.
Knowing the medieval culture and looking at the VM with a broad mind you can reach the conclusion that I defend, but the prejudice of the language is too powerful. I have a lot of fun watching the most varied linguistic theories appear periodically, when the simplest thing is to think that there is nothing phonetic in the script.
The closest work to VM in its time is the Giovanni Fontana books. Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians. He just wants to imitate magic writing, but with intelligible meaning. He invents characters with lines and small circles that look like the signs we see in astral magic. But they are characters that are easily replaced by Latin letters. It's a cipher that doesn't hide anything. Why?
The author of the VM, like Fontana, also imitates the power of magic, but with astrological glyphs that have meaning by themselves. The only thing that the script does is to relate, to serve as a bridge between the stars and the herbs. It works like a charm.
I don't think there is a sophisticated philosophy in the VM. It just reflects the average culture of its time.
Knowing the medieval culture and looking at the VM with a broad mind you can reach the conclusion that I defend, but the prejudice of the language is too powerful. I have a lot of fun watching the most varied linguistic theories appear periodically, when the simplest thing is to think that there is nothing phonetic in the script.
The closest work to VM in its time is the Giovanni Fontana books. Fontana, an engineer, imitates the power the magicians. He just wants to imitate magic writing, but with intelligible meaning. He invents characters with lines and small circles that look like the signs we see in astral magic. But they are characters that are easily replaced by Latin letters. It's a cipher that doesn't hide anything. Why?
The author of the VM, like Fontana, also imitates the power of magic, but with astrological glyphs that have meaning by themselves. The only thing that the script does is to relate, to serve as a bridge between the stars and the herbs. It works like a charm.