22-09-2016, 06:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-09-2016, 06:57 AM by Diane.
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This is amazing. I was just about to post on the parallel references to astronomy and geography in folio 5v, and in particular about the old site of Dioskurias, where seventeenth and eighteenth century sources say the population was then Mingrellian.
I'd even linked to the Omniglot site - while noting that as far as we know Mingrelian was not a written language until the 19thC when the ethnologists rendered it into written form.
Also, I dispute that ether is one of the elements here.
As far as the history of the manuscript's study goes:-
Rich Santacoloma was, as far as I can discover, the first person to sense that the diagram pictured a system of elements. Rich supposed ether included.
I reached the conclusion, independently and without knowing of Rich's opinion, that the diagram is a non-European five-element system whose imagery is formed in a way suggesting a direct link to the earlier Greek terms, esp. that for unformed matter.
Links to Rich's site were included in my revised post, which explains why I read the image as I do, gives the documentary sources I had used, and explains certain problems about supposing ether included. For people who like to get this sort of thing right.
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My post about Dioskurias and Mingrellian is scheduled to be published next week, but I'll follow this thread and if it turns up anything relevant I'd add he info and credits as appropriate.
I'd even linked to the Omniglot site - while noting that as far as we know Mingrelian was not a written language until the 19thC when the ethnologists rendered it into written form.
Also, I dispute that ether is one of the elements here.
As far as the history of the manuscript's study goes:-
Rich Santacoloma was, as far as I can discover, the first person to sense that the diagram pictured a system of elements. Rich supposed ether included.
I reached the conclusion, independently and without knowing of Rich's opinion, that the diagram is a non-European five-element system whose imagery is formed in a way suggesting a direct link to the earlier Greek terms, esp. that for unformed matter.
Links to Rich's site were included in my revised post, which explains why I read the image as I do, gives the documentary sources I had used, and explains certain problems about supposing ether included. For people who like to get this sort of thing right.
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My post about Dioskurias and Mingrellian is scheduled to be published next week, but I'll follow this thread and if it turns up anything relevant I'd add he info and credits as appropriate.