28-10-2021, 11:19 PM
I have seen people write that the Voynich in terms of its contents is unremarkable for it's time.
Apart from the obvious way in which it is unusual I would question the idea that the manuscript is conventional.
Now admittedly I have not studied all aspects of the manuscript and exhaustively compared the Voynich with contemporaneous texts, however from what I am familiar with it does seem to be quite distinct.
First of all I think it worth stating the obvious point that there seems little reason in enciphering something that can readily be found elsewhere. It makes more sense if there is some original content contained throughout the manuscript.
Looking at the plant illustrations it seems that other contemporary herbals seem broadly more similar to one another than they do to the Voynich. I wonder if the same can be said of the astrological sections.
Is there a contemporary text with all these different kinds of content that we see with the Voynich contained within it?
Apart from the obvious way in which it is unusual I would question the idea that the manuscript is conventional.
Now admittedly I have not studied all aspects of the manuscript and exhaustively compared the Voynich with contemporaneous texts, however from what I am familiar with it does seem to be quite distinct.
First of all I think it worth stating the obvious point that there seems little reason in enciphering something that can readily be found elsewhere. It makes more sense if there is some original content contained throughout the manuscript.
Looking at the plant illustrations it seems that other contemporary herbals seem broadly more similar to one another than they do to the Voynich. I wonder if the same can be said of the astrological sections.
Is there a contemporary text with all these different kinds of content that we see with the Voynich contained within it?