30-12-2022, 09:35 PM
One of the most interesting observations that Mary D'Imperio made in her work The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma is the description that she made of the way in which the plants are drawn and its connection with other elements of the book such as the pipes in Quire 13 and the jars in the pharmacological section.
D'Imperio said that the plant parts have a curious blocky, chunky, rough-hewn look. She summed up her impression by saying that the plants appeared to be molded out of plastic. For her, the drawings of both the plants and the pipes and jars seemed deliberately mechanical, artificial. The author had intentionally given them that look.
D'Imperio said that the plant parts have a curious blocky, chunky, rough-hewn look. She summed up her impression by saying that the plants appeared to be molded out of plastic. For her, the drawings of both the plants and the pipes and jars seemed deliberately mechanical, artificial. The author had intentionally given them that look.