The VM as Outsider Art

[ReneZ]

I also tend to agree that these concepts are primarily anachronistic if we interpret them in a modern way.

I would find it hard to believe that unusual minds or mildly to moderatel disturned minds did not exist before the Renaissance. This is probable also not what Koen intended.

There is of course an extreme shortage of documented examples, though two famous cases have been mentioned in the context of the Voynich MS:
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Opicinus de Canistris

Their work does not look at all like the Voynich MS but I think that the whole point is that each of these types of works would be a unique and new creation.

When I was interested in finding a connection between George of Trebizond and the Voynich MS, I learned that he was also considered to have some kind of a mental disorder, though modern scholars in this area of medical research would hesitate to put a name on it without having a chance to 'talk to the patient".

This is just meant to underline the possibility (in my opinion) of some kind of 'visiionary' or 'outsider'  mindset in the creation of the MS.