Compound plants in the VMS ?

[Mark Knowles]

Mark Knowles Wrote:
"I suppose to some extent it depends on one's perspective on the authors as to whether every detail in the manuscript was careful, calculated and well thought out or whether some things were ad hoc, inadvertent or just plain disorganised."

Consider the value of ambiguity. How does the VMs artist create something that is strange and exotic, assuming the work was done prior to 1450?

Well it appears that you are claiming that the Voynich is a hoax/fake. I am not of that opinion, however I don't want to get distracted by that particular rabbit hole.

Is the VMs to be considered only based on its superficial appearance, or is something more subtle involved?

For me, Occam's razor comes in here. It may be attractive for a more complex explanation for aspects of the Voynich to be believed. However the Voynich is an imperfect document and so a simpler explanation could be one of error instead of plan in some aspects of the Voynich. One can ask whether the flaws in certain poorly illustrated drawings are deliberate or just mistakes by an experienced or careless illustrator.

Combination is part of the plan to create intentional ambiguity.

Further investigation is an attempt to identify both parts of the combination.

But all interpretation of ambiguity is lost, from the modern perspective, when the necessary familiarity with that relevant history does not exist and recognition cannot occur. 

Who knows the list of things that the VMs artist knows and draws, combines and disguises?

From my point of view it appears that your approach can lead one to seeing patterns when sometimes they are just not there.