Hello Searcher,
I think the line of thought might have got a bit distracted. What we were doing were finding examples of creatures which resemble the feline in the manuscript. Everyone has supposed it was meant for a lion, but it doesn't have the characteristics of a lion, so Sam G. and Koen are doing what I've also done - trying not to look for examples of what we suppose it "should be" in sources where we think it "should be" but actually looking for images that exactly match the Voynich creature's appearance.
No mane, spotted hide, round ears... but of course you don't need me to write the shopping list for you.
Interestingly, the animal with the spotted hide that you included is not a lion but was called a "panther" too - just as Dionysius' animal was that we've been talking about.
I know that because in medieval bestiaries, the story went that although the 'panther' was the fastest of animals, if it saw a glass ball and its own reflection in it, it would think the reflection one of its cubs, and stop chasing you.
So actually you did find a sort of "panther" as a near match, just as we have done.
Cheers.
I think the line of thought might have got a bit distracted. What we were doing were finding examples of creatures which resemble the feline in the manuscript. Everyone has supposed it was meant for a lion, but it doesn't have the characteristics of a lion, so Sam G. and Koen are doing what I've also done - trying not to look for examples of what we suppose it "should be" in sources where we think it "should be" but actually looking for images that exactly match the Voynich creature's appearance.
No mane, spotted hide, round ears... but of course you don't need me to write the shopping list for you.
Interestingly, the animal with the spotted hide that you included is not a lion but was called a "panther" too - just as Dionysius' animal was that we've been talking about.
I know that because in medieval bestiaries, the story went that although the 'panther' was the fastest of animals, if it saw a glass ball and its own reflection in it, it would think the reflection one of its cubs, and stop chasing you.
So actually you did find a sort of "panther" as a near match, just as we have done.
Cheers.