Thank you, Gioynich!
I love the idea of a quantitative approach to this kind of analysis. As you say, there still is a large subjective factor, but at least one tries to make their subjective choices more transparent. I hope that sooner or later an art historian will write about the Voynich zodiac in a more extensive way: what authoritative researchers like Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot or Dieter Blume have so far released only are short statements (discussed by Rene You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
I am a little surprised to see an Arabic Al-Sufi ms among the top five overall best matches. That tradition includes systematic duplication of zodiac constellations (which are displayed in both the "from earth" and "from heaven" points of view): this results in a double cancer; but then cancer itself is the classical crab, rather than the Northern crayfish. I wonder why your method points out this source as particularly relevant: I can probably find answers in the archive you attached but I haven't tried yet. In the much simpler analysis I posted on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in 2016, that ms was ranked 93 among the set of 130 zodiacs I considered.
Seeing now the St Gall Sagittarius, after all the work that Koen has done about costumes and proportions, I find this specific parallel even more striking than I did before. The double circular frame also contributes.
I love the idea of a quantitative approach to this kind of analysis. As you say, there still is a large subjective factor, but at least one tries to make their subjective choices more transparent. I hope that sooner or later an art historian will write about the Voynich zodiac in a more extensive way: what authoritative researchers like Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot or Dieter Blume have so far released only are short statements (discussed by Rene You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
I am a little surprised to see an Arabic Al-Sufi ms among the top five overall best matches. That tradition includes systematic duplication of zodiac constellations (which are displayed in both the "from earth" and "from heaven" points of view): this results in a double cancer; but then cancer itself is the classical crab, rather than the Northern crayfish. I wonder why your method points out this source as particularly relevant: I can probably find answers in the archive you attached but I haven't tried yet. In the much simpler analysis I posted on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in 2016, that ms was ranked 93 among the set of 130 zodiacs I considered.
Seeing now the St Gall Sagittarius, after all the work that Koen has done about costumes and proportions, I find this specific parallel even more striking than I did before. The double circular frame also contributes.
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