07-10-2021, 08:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2021, 08:44 AM by Ahmet Ardıç.)
Mr. Tentaculus
When I am try to clarify your question (and some other questions before), I wrote "he"/"him" for the author in some places in my previous comments. However, it is not yet clear whether the author is male or female, or how she/he defines her/his own identity.
(Although, later on, when I realize my typos myself, I try to go back and edit the wrong part. However, I felt the need to make this annotation considering the possibility that the readers may have read what I wrote before I edited it. Or because there may have been typos that I could not correct because I still missed it.)
As far as I understand from my readings, the author was not alone during the time the VM was written. As I wrote before, the author and her/his associates consist of three families with a total of 9 people, including 3 children.
When I look at the way the texts are written, I think that the main texts (most probably) came from two different hands. Moreover, considering that the author is a doctor/physician, I think that she/he was interested in the patients around her/him during her/his long term trip in Europe.
Also, this manuscript was probably written in two copies. I think that the first (lost) texts was fully written by the author and the second copy (in my opinion, the second copy of the work that in Yale today) was mostly written by the author's life partner. Since the author may had also been busy with some patients and she/he had been busy with plant collecting, and searching (and/or planting) some greens to making with them medicines. So the author daily activity area mostly was outside their nomadic type plase of temporary residence in day period probably.
In fact, looking at the layout and beauty of the VM texts, I have always thought that it might have come from the careful hands of a woman. As a result, although I may have carelessly used expressions like "he"/"him" in some of my comments, this is probably not the case.
So, most of the copy we have today may have been made by a woman, and I think there are two separate hands in the main parts of the texts we have. Of course I could be wrong.
However, later additions were made to these texts in the form of interventions and/or additions by two other hands in two different time after VM was fully ready. Since I wrote my opinion about these detail in one of my previous comments, I will not repeat them here.
Kind regards,
When I am try to clarify your question (and some other questions before), I wrote "he"/"him" for the author in some places in my previous comments. However, it is not yet clear whether the author is male or female, or how she/he defines her/his own identity.
(Although, later on, when I realize my typos myself, I try to go back and edit the wrong part. However, I felt the need to make this annotation considering the possibility that the readers may have read what I wrote before I edited it. Or because there may have been typos that I could not correct because I still missed it.)
As far as I understand from my readings, the author was not alone during the time the VM was written. As I wrote before, the author and her/his associates consist of three families with a total of 9 people, including 3 children.
When I look at the way the texts are written, I think that the main texts (most probably) came from two different hands. Moreover, considering that the author is a doctor/physician, I think that she/he was interested in the patients around her/him during her/his long term trip in Europe.
Also, this manuscript was probably written in two copies. I think that the first (lost) texts was fully written by the author and the second copy (in my opinion, the second copy of the work that in Yale today) was mostly written by the author's life partner. Since the author may had also been busy with some patients and she/he had been busy with plant collecting, and searching (and/or planting) some greens to making with them medicines. So the author daily activity area mostly was outside their nomadic type plase of temporary residence in day period probably.
In fact, looking at the layout and beauty of the VM texts, I have always thought that it might have come from the careful hands of a woman. As a result, although I may have carelessly used expressions like "he"/"him" in some of my comments, this is probably not the case.
So, most of the copy we have today may have been made by a woman, and I think there are two separate hands in the main parts of the texts we have. Of course I could be wrong.
However, later additions were made to these texts in the form of interventions and/or additions by two other hands in two different time after VM was fully ready. Since I wrote my opinion about these detail in one of my previous comments, I will not repeat them here.
Kind regards,