25-10-2021, 09:52 AM
The so-called Recipe section is for me the best example that the VM is a genuine medieval work, not a hoax. Why would anyone write more than 20 pages of what looks like text?
You can see that under this tangle of chained glyphs there is an intention, the will to transmit something, whatever
For me this section illustrates very well the medieval thought expressed in Vincent de Beauvais's encyclopedia: a star for a herb.
You can argue: well, I see the star but not the plant.
What I believe is that each paragraph of glyphs attached to a star is a way of identifying that particular star through astronomical symbols, and that any herb corresponds to the identification of that star. In fact, the drawing of the stars in the Recipe section can be mistaken for a flower.
You can see that under this tangle of chained glyphs there is an intention, the will to transmit something, whatever
For me this section illustrates very well the medieval thought expressed in Vincent de Beauvais's encyclopedia: a star for a herb.
You can argue: well, I see the star but not the plant.
What I believe is that each paragraph of glyphs attached to a star is a way of identifying that particular star through astronomical symbols, and that any herb corresponds to the identification of that star. In fact, the drawing of the stars in the Recipe section can be mistaken for a flower.