10-08-2022, 05:38 PM
If image and text correspond, then a page is a botanical monograph. Can the VMs monograph be compared to the text of another herbal source with the same plant ID? It has been tried before, but it hasn't really worked. And the question is why it hasn't worked. Is the author's work so unique, in an era where science consisted of repeating the existing information?
Essentially, this is a search for a "Rosetta Stone" within the VMs. Whether that is a plant monograph or a block paradigm, it works the same way - *in theory*. In practice, however, there is a difficulty - a lot of difficulty. Are the potential plant monographs the best text options for interpretation, or do Stolfi's markers indicate a better opportunity?
If the images and their texts correspond in the botanical section, then such correspondence probably exists in other parts of the VMs. The recipes are instructions for pharmaceutical compounding. And the cosmic and 'bathing' sections also have corresponding texts, depending on what the author chose to write. But if everything is corresponding, and things are on the up and up, as they say, then what's with the trickery? Why is Oresme's cosmos in Shirakatsi's wheel? What's with Melusine? Why does White Aries contain a dualistic illustration? And all the other stuff. (New Jerusalem, Agnus Dei, Golden Fleece, Wreath of the Virgin, etc.)
Essentially, this is a search for a "Rosetta Stone" within the VMs. Whether that is a plant monograph or a block paradigm, it works the same way - *in theory*. In practice, however, there is a difficulty - a lot of difficulty. Are the potential plant monographs the best text options for interpretation, or do Stolfi's markers indicate a better opportunity?
If the images and their texts correspond in the botanical section, then such correspondence probably exists in other parts of the VMs. The recipes are instructions for pharmaceutical compounding. And the cosmic and 'bathing' sections also have corresponding texts, depending on what the author chose to write. But if everything is corresponding, and things are on the up and up, as they say, then what's with the trickery? Why is Oresme's cosmos in Shirakatsi's wheel? What's with Melusine? Why does White Aries contain a dualistic illustration? And all the other stuff. (New Jerusalem, Agnus Dei, Golden Fleece, Wreath of the Virgin, etc.)