29-03-2023, 03:49 PM
Fortunately, I'm old enough to care about my reputation.
If I remember correctly, Alain Touwaide did not believe that the VM was a herbal medicine, but some kind of parody or game. And even he suspected that it might be a fake.
But the problem is that the VM is not just a collection of plants, but something else. If we want to simplify, it is a set of pages with plants and another set of cosmological diagrams. And you don't need to know much about the medieval mind to put the two together and make sense of it.
You, Koen, are one of the members of the forum who have paid the most attention to iconography and who have made the most progress in terms of its interpretation, ideas that I share. The problem is that you don't get to unify those ideas and relate them to the script, but I think it's not very complicated.
If I remember correctly, Alain Touwaide did not believe that the VM was a herbal medicine, but some kind of parody or game. And even he suspected that it might be a fake.
But the problem is that the VM is not just a collection of plants, but something else. If we want to simplify, it is a set of pages with plants and another set of cosmological diagrams. And you don't need to know much about the medieval mind to put the two together and make sense of it.
You, Koen, are one of the members of the forum who have paid the most attention to iconography and who have made the most progress in terms of its interpretation, ideas that I share. The problem is that you don't get to unify those ideas and relate them to the script, but I think it's not very complicated.

