11-09-2016, 06:39 AM
I found another evidence of paper/papyrus in the manuscript:
It was numbered 67r-1 in the Yale foliation - haven't checked it against the Beinecke's re-foliation. This is the detail. See the tears in it? The finely rippled margin is yet another of those graphic conventions established already in dynastic Egypt, where it means 'papyrus' or more exactly because it is found in the hands of the celestial Recorder goddess who writes on the tree of heaven - immortal papyrus, the scroll of heaven. Interestingly, the only similar form, using a circular folding fan to record the heavens, was from Christian Ethiopia. I daresay you've seen that, but for anyone else who might be interested, I'll add it again here.
![[Image: 67r1-detail-palm-tips.jpg]](https://voynichimagery.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/67r1-detail-palm-tips.jpg)
![[Image: calendar-fan-with-staff.jpg]](https://voynichimagery.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/calendar-fan-with-staff.jpg)
I think the number and quality of parallels for the imagery in this manuscript that come from the eastern side of the Mediterranean - and eastwards of that - are such that it must take enormous will-power to ignore them and keep busy looking for things to support the "Latin European Christian" storyline. But then some people can.
It was numbered 67r-1 in the Yale foliation - haven't checked it against the Beinecke's re-foliation. This is the detail. See the tears in it? The finely rippled margin is yet another of those graphic conventions established already in dynastic Egypt, where it means 'papyrus' or more exactly because it is found in the hands of the celestial Recorder goddess who writes on the tree of heaven - immortal papyrus, the scroll of heaven. Interestingly, the only similar form, using a circular folding fan to record the heavens, was from Christian Ethiopia. I daresay you've seen that, but for anyone else who might be interested, I'll add it again here.
I think the number and quality of parallels for the imagery in this manuscript that come from the eastern side of the Mediterranean - and eastwards of that - are such that it must take enormous will-power to ignore them and keep busy looking for things to support the "Latin European Christian" storyline. But then some people can.