(11-01-2025, 01:46 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've gotten much more critical and pessimistic about matching VM images over the years, but this sent shivers down my spine. I knew it was something I had never seen before.
But now comes the weird thing: the doctor isn't part of a sequence at all! He just happens to appear after the four seasons in this particular tradition! The image of the medical practitioner simply introduces the section about the four temperaments.
This should be warning you not to throw caution overboard, unless you assume that the VM was created by copying random illustrations that are not even part of a logical sequence, just because they happen to be in a particular order in a manuscript tradition, which makes zero sense.
The small bottle is not a urine bottle, for obvious reasons. The doctor is not a doctor: the painter created a cap that clearly wasn't there at the time the human figures were drawn in iron gall ink.
The old hunched woman is interesting, despite the inexplicable transformation of the rosary into several fluffy rings and the cane into something small and unidentifiable. I didn't see the resemblance at first but you convinced me. The sequence, on the other hand... if we had four good sequential matches I would be convinced, but we don't have them. Not even two.
Pseudo-recognizing links that don't exist anywhere else than in your imagination is called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. A type of low-level delusion, common in Voynich research. Please, stay critical. Play with your delusions, don't get played by them.