04-03-2022, 09:00 PM
The Carbon-14 dating for the VMs parchment provides a necessary grounding for historical interpretation, anything up to 1450 or so. That is just the parchment, not the content. There is much to say that the content is contemporary with the parchment, despite a potential hiccup or two. And that connection has been well supplemented by further research.
Can it be read? Not a chance. No theory can read a segment of text, let alone a single page.
What is known is discovered in the illustrations. What is discovered are things the investigator may not have known previously. The 'Oresme cosmos' of BNF Fr. 565, for instance. Or specific details of medieval heraldry that uniquely connect the VMs cartoons to actual historical events. The illustrations tell us what the artist knows, but only in a few places have investigators found a way to make sense of what the VMs illustration was meant to represent. In the rosettes, the cosmic and mermaid images and several others.
Do the VMs illustrations contain two *potential* representations of the ambiguous creature of the Golden Fleece? There the history dates from 1430 in the Duchy of Burgundy. Does this show something that the artist knew? That the artist can disguise the appearance and confirm by the structure.
Does a Book of Obfuscations qualify as a Book of Shadows?
Can it be read? Not a chance. No theory can read a segment of text, let alone a single page.
What is known is discovered in the illustrations. What is discovered are things the investigator may not have known previously. The 'Oresme cosmos' of BNF Fr. 565, for instance. Or specific details of medieval heraldry that uniquely connect the VMs cartoons to actual historical events. The illustrations tell us what the artist knows, but only in a few places have investigators found a way to make sense of what the VMs illustration was meant to represent. In the rosettes, the cosmic and mermaid images and several others.
Do the VMs illustrations contain two *potential* representations of the ambiguous creature of the Golden Fleece? There the history dates from 1430 in the Duchy of Burgundy. Does this show something that the artist knew? That the artist can disguise the appearance and confirm by the structure.
Does a Book of Obfuscations qualify as a Book of Shadows?