01-05-2024, 05:56 PM
(01-05-2024, 08:55 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We don't know the author of most manuscripts. How can it be more extreme than "author unknown"? Author extremely unknown? And similarly, there are many manuscripts of which we don't even know in which country they were made. And of which we don't know how they ended up in the repository where they were first inventorized. Why? Because manuscripts travel. Because of Latin as the lingua franca. Because medieval scribes rarely signed their works.
I would flip it around and say that the situation of the VM is pretty standard. The cases where we actually know everything about a manuscript's provenance are the extremes.
Well, of course I totally disagree with this, because it is a matter of the number and degree of these mysteries in the Voynich which I feel mean it is not at all similar to those other cases. But again I must point out that the lack of authorship is not an issue, and I don't feel should be included in the comparisons. We both agree there are a great many of such cases with unknown authors... the issue to me, which I use for comparsion, are the great many other unknowns, which do surpass virtually all genuine items... and even for that matter... most forgeries.
But we can go back and forth of course. I just reiterate my point, which is above yours. As many such discussion here and elsewhere, though, it is probably fodder for a blog post... listing such cases outside of the Voynich, actual ones... and why I believe the Voynich is far out of their class for serious "issues".
Rich.