The VM as Outsider Art

[Bernd]

Even with stick figure sketches or vague memories this shows the person drawing the VM images either didn't care about or lacked common sense. In my unqualified opinion, there are several clues indicating the artist had some severe trouble interpreting source images correctly. Stem loops, interconnecting trees and fused inflorescences show a total lack of understanding in plant anatomy. Even a child knows plants don't grow this way and despite a lot of bad herbal drawings in other contemporary manuscripts, we do not find anything even remotely smilar. The artist also has an obsession with sticking to familiar patterns while stacking and modifying them in a modular way that appears autistic. Spare me any political correctness nonsense, you know what I mean. It's apparent in plants which sometimes appear to have multiple flowers stacked on top of each other like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or f39v and culminates in the rosette foldouts. All this together with the repetitive Voynichese and the nonsensical marginalia forms an oddly coherent picture. It may be coincidence but I doubt it.