(07-04-2024, 01:08 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-04-2024, 10:34 AM)Hermes777 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Garments and fashions in the ms. suggest earlier rather than later I think, but then a later illustrator may have been following existing illustrations (poorly) rather than drawing from life.
To me it appears to be a later attempted copy of an earlier drawing. People argue about the fashion, but I don't see the Voynich author being very concerned that the fashion is up to date in the drawings, especially given how crude the drawings are.
The human figures and some plants are crude. The illustrator struggles with human figures, and possibly turned to copying existing figures in the zodiac figures etc or wherever he could. But, the illustrator was good at circles! The cosmological diagrams are well done, and the cartography. He was more at home with technical drawing.
(When I was at school, there was a distinction between Grammar Schools and Technical Schools. In the art classes in Grammar Schools you were taught to draw the human body. In technical schools you were taught to use a compass and set square. - C.P. Snow's 'Two Cultures' thesis.)