I, for one, think that this is an excellent find!
I cannot see any form of coincidence at work here, and that the details are different just tells me that the two manuscripts are not in a direct connection with each other.
The Karlsruhe is at least 2, perhaps 3 decades later, and I don't think that anyone expects serious manuscripts to be copied from the Voynich.
Not only telling is that three consecutive drawings show the same motif, equally telling is that there is nothing similar for the fourth. That is nothing disturbing, it is just more evidence of the 'distance' between the two MSS.
One thing to find out is (after hopefully having located more copies) if three or four is the 'traditional' number.
If it is three, then this means that the Voynich authors added one.
If it is four, then I would expect this fourth one to be more varied. Alternatively, in the Karlsruhe MS it could just be missing.
Beside being after the three, it could also be before them.
All sorts of possibilities are still open.
The Voynich 'artist' could just have drawn from a (vague) memory.
He could also have drawn from a textual description.
In both cases, no great similarity is to be expected.
I do think that it is important to find more copies of this text.
Finally, I strongly suspect that there could be publications that cover this group of pictures, and that would also be helpful.
I cannot see any form of coincidence at work here, and that the details are different just tells me that the two manuscripts are not in a direct connection with each other.
The Karlsruhe is at least 2, perhaps 3 decades later, and I don't think that anyone expects serious manuscripts to be copied from the Voynich.
Not only telling is that three consecutive drawings show the same motif, equally telling is that there is nothing similar for the fourth. That is nothing disturbing, it is just more evidence of the 'distance' between the two MSS.
One thing to find out is (after hopefully having located more copies) if three or four is the 'traditional' number.
If it is three, then this means that the Voynich authors added one.
If it is four, then I would expect this fourth one to be more varied. Alternatively, in the Karlsruhe MS it could just be missing.
Beside being after the three, it could also be before them.
All sorts of possibilities are still open.
The Voynich 'artist' could just have drawn from a (vague) memory.
He could also have drawn from a textual description.
In both cases, no great similarity is to be expected.
I do think that it is important to find more copies of this text.
Finally, I strongly suspect that there could be publications that cover this group of pictures, and that would also be helpful.
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