05-08-2020, 09:03 AM
Masterpiece in what way? No from artistic point of view, not really a scribal masterpiece either..
"Whoever created the Voynich MS had significant skills and clear knowledge of medical / philosophical documents."
They must have had skills, but it is also possible that their skills were unrelated to what they were documenting.
What VMS demonstrates is writer(s) had access to medical/cosmological/philosophical artifacts, not that they had skills in those subjects.
As in this thread there are many open opnions, here's one more how I'd consider VMS a masterpiece.
Take the group of persons - a guid, family, congregation, secret society, whatever, who had access to manuscripts and artifacts in different languages and wanted to collect the most interesting (for them) in a single book, not written with many languages but just one. So they went to create an "esperanto of the 15th Century" that unifies those languages and scripts, and to be complete and easier to write, they created also a new set of glyphs and structure to support it.
In this case it would be a Masterpiece indeed.
"Whoever created the Voynich MS had significant skills and clear knowledge of medical / philosophical documents."
They must have had skills, but it is also possible that their skills were unrelated to what they were documenting.
What VMS demonstrates is writer(s) had access to medical/cosmological/philosophical artifacts, not that they had skills in those subjects.
As in this thread there are many open opnions, here's one more how I'd consider VMS a masterpiece.
Take the group of persons - a guid, family, congregation, secret society, whatever, who had access to manuscripts and artifacts in different languages and wanted to collect the most interesting (for them) in a single book, not written with many languages but just one. So they went to create an "esperanto of the 15th Century" that unifies those languages and scripts, and to be complete and easier to write, they created also a new set of glyphs and structure to support it.
In this case it would be a Masterpiece indeed.