26-11-2022, 05:15 AM
(25-11-2022, 11:19 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many of the drawings in the Voynich may appear unique and may be unique. I certainly am of the view that some drawings are unique and some other drawings I don't know.
However in the specific case of the central Zodiac drawings in the Voynich they appear clearly to be far from unique. In fact they seem at least highly derivative and I suspect complete copies without any originality at all. It is semantic question perhaps, but I use the term exact copy even if the copy is very badly executed.
The appear clearly... they seem at least...
Some evidence is needed here. Opinions are just opinions. If it were the opinion of someone with training and experience in the matter, it would be a different story already.
More generally, if the Voynich MS zodiac is suspected to be a copy of a Lauber work, while Lauber is known to have used older sources and copied them accurately, that effectively removes the post-1430 argument, because the Voynich MS could equally well have been copied from these older sources.