04-10-2021, 10:02 PM
What I wanted to say is that in medieval bestiaries the line between mythological monsters and real animals is blurred. Let's see this image of a confrontation between an elephant and a dragon
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No one had even seen a dragon, but surely the vast majority of the readers of this manuscript had ever seen an elephant.
What was more real, a mermaid or a whale? For them it was the same: mysterious animals that lived in remotes places.
That is why I think that for those who drew the fantastic Voynich herbs they were plants that could be real and grow somewhere in the world
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No one had even seen a dragon, but surely the vast majority of the readers of this manuscript had ever seen an elephant.
What was more real, a mermaid or a whale? For them it was the same: mysterious animals that lived in remotes places.
That is why I think that for those who drew the fantastic Voynich herbs they were plants that could be real and grow somewhere in the world