26-11-2024, 06:19 PM
argo2001, I'm glad that your grandmother taught you the intimate relationship between herbs, the moon and the stars. She knew the plants she collected. In the VM we do not know herbs. There may be some that can be identified but the vast majority cannot. This already seems mysterious, doesn't it?
You don't seem to know much about the Hermetic tradition. Most of the texts of the religious-philosophical category were not known to the Western world until the second half of the 15th century, as you say, especially through Marsilio Ficino. But there is another category of technical hermetic texts of an alchemical, astrological and magical type that were translated into Latin centuries before from Arabic sources.
The lapidary of Alfonso X the Wise, a work with which the Voynich has a great analogy, could come from this hermetic tradition.
You don't seem to know much about the Hermetic tradition. Most of the texts of the religious-philosophical category were not known to the Western world until the second half of the 15th century, as you say, especially through Marsilio Ficino. But there is another category of technical hermetic texts of an alchemical, astrological and magical type that were translated into Latin centuries before from Arabic sources.
The lapidary of Alfonso X the Wise, a work with which the Voynich has a great analogy, could come from this hermetic tradition.