08-04-2024, 11:03 AM
(08-04-2024, 10:48 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the VM images and Lauber's are part of the same family tree as it were. I see no reason for closer Lauber involvement.
I don't see a reason to introduce the concept of a family tree when there is no evidence for earlier greater similarity. Of course, it is certainly possible. Occam's razor leads me to believe that the direct relationship is between the VM and the Lauber illustrations. It seems unnecessary to propose an earlier more similar ancestor for which there is, as yet, no evidence. I see no reason to propose a "Q" ancestor of both the Lauber and Voynich manuscript; it unnecessarily complicates the picture. The most similar illustrations appear to be those of Lauber, so there seems no point in introducing a much earlier source. It is certainly possible there is an earlier source, but it seems very plausible that the drawings are copied directly from Lauber.