No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

Whenever I talk about icons, I always refer to the glyphs of the script, not to the illustrations of the Voynich. For me, the glyphs are symbols with their own meaning, exactly like the zodiacal symbols.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Interestingly, the zodiacal symbols began to be used in the second half of the fifteenth century. We don't see them before and that's why we don't see them in the VM.

It is true that the transliteration of the glyphs into letters of the alphabet is a convention used to create an electronic version of the script. But it is no less true that doing so distances us from the material reality of what we see.