(17-10-2022, 10:40 PM)Ranceps wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(10-08-2022, 09:49 PM)pauls_3d_things wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Has anyone compared the VMS drawings with the texts of Hildegard von Bingen?
More and more I am looking into Hildegard of Bingen, the more I see the connection between Lingua Ignota as a predecessor of the Voynichese. The author might not be her, but somebody who wrote the MS408 in the spirit of Hildegarde (some kind of successor who continued her work).
That would indeed explain the high-german (if so) at the end of the manuscript. Let’s assume a monk, long (200+ years) time after she died, found her scribblings, trying to put those into order. You would not want to translate that into pure latin as some of hers ideas were not orthodox or she put too much effort into hiding it. No, if you understand the text, you would try to continue, invent and try to hide the knowledge even more so only you would understand what a Saint person wrote. The Bingen monastery was destroyed in 1632, so the key could be lost..
The MS408 cosmos would indeed fit into hers, maybe a bit “colored” by somebody who didn’t had a visions like her. Also, she was illiterate like our author could be…
I am going to write something about that in a matter of weeks. Still trying to clear some connections.
I have a scenario, Ranceps, in which the manuscript concerns the Ladin herbal tradition in the Dolomites, specifically the Val Badia, which region and people were overseen by Benedictine sisters of the Hildegard tradition. I have given some time to considering that context and Voynichese having Hildegard's language as the precedent. I blogged about it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
So I can provide a context for that possibility. My further thought is that Hildegard's language was essentially grammarless and just a lexicon. On some analysis, this might also characterise Voynichese. Yet the Voynich language seems systematic and 'entangled' in a way that Hildegard's language is not. But, in general, the Benedictine tradition leaves open the possibility of invented or 'inspired' tongues.