New Blog Post, [imagery] "Sources for the Voynich Forgery"
#7
Rather than forgery, what I see in the VMs are increasing examples of deceptive appearance and visual trickery. The VMs cosmos is a prime example and the comparison is based on historical examples of BNF. Fr. 565 and Harley 334 from the investigations of E. Velinska. Careful comparison reveals that the Ms cosmos has the same interior structure as the c. 1410 version of the Oresme example, and at the same time there is a high degree of visual difference and a divergent appearance that appears intentional.

Take the central Earth in these cosmic representations, in the historical illustrations the representation if Earth is pictorial. In the VMs it is not. VMs retains the unusual inverted T-O structure in common with the others, but has changed from pictorial representation to an apparent linguistic description. This change is a code shift, a change in the method of communication. There is no way appearance goes through this process unaltered!! This is the trick that has been played. This is the type of deception that has been used to alter the appearance of the Earth (1), the surrounding stars (2), AND the cosmic boundary / nebuly line (3), which has the common (VMs & Oresme) structural factor of 43 undulations.

It is the same *structure*. And both the Oresme text and the Berry Apocalypse, with an uncommon use of a pure nebuly line as a cosmic boundary were in the library of Jean de Berry (d.1416)

And there is more trickery and deception involved. The VMs employs the disguise of combined illustrations. It is the deception created by imposing elements from one source to make a hybrid combination with elements from a second, potentially divergent source. In the VMs illustration, the Oresme version of the cosmos has been used to fill in the empty center of the wheel and eight curved spokes that is structurally the same as Shirakatsi's 'Eight Phases of the Moon' diagram. This is an indication of the level of sophistication involved in VMs deception. The explanation of the VMs representations requires familiarity with both sources to reveal the full reality. And this level of sophisticated deception is confirmed because it is repeated in the VMs illustration of the 'mermaid', with special, guest appearance by the Luxembourg version of Melusine with the Valois connection (Berry, Burgundy, etc.), or the combined use of armorial and ecclesiastical heraldry in the first pages of the VMs Zodiac sequence.

Lack of investigator familiarity with the similarities that VMs illustrations have with historical events does not negate the VMs data. Lack of traditional information, such as heraldry (nebuly lines, red galeros, papelonny fur, etc.), suggests potential problems in any attempted VMs interpretation.
[+] 1 user says Thank You to R. Sale for this post
Reply


Messages In This Thread
RE: New Blog Post, [imagery] "Sources for the Voynich Forgery" - by R. Sale - 16-04-2021, 01:39 AM

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Dioscorides and Tacuinium sanitatis as sources of VM imagery Bernd 2 4,056 29-12-2024, 05:15 AM
Last Post: Barbrey
  New Blog Post, "The Voynich Manuscript in 3D" proto57 5 8,678 11-03-2021, 01:16 AM
Last Post: -JKP-

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: