(18-01-2025, 01:23 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Somehow I can't believe that the purpose of the writing was to promote an ideology. In order to succeed at such a thing you would need to proclaim it loudly, spread the word as far as possible, post the message, brief and to the point, for all and singular to read. Expensive calfskin books that no-one can read won't get your ideology far.
Well, I didn't say they succeeded
(18-01-2025, 01:23 PM)dashstofsk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the drawings shouldn't be taken literally then why have them? Why waste expensive calfskin vellum?
It's not that expensive, as far as I understand. Quite suitable for some important writing. Drawings could be to explain why you keep this strange codex at home in the first place.
- Okey, now face the judge and answer, what is that?!
- Officer, it's a herbal and science book my late father brought from Africa. It's in a foreign language that I can't read, but the drawings are interesting, I'm trying to understand which plants are these.
- Isn't this the bad bad book that you wrote and that says nasty things about the cardinal, the book that our informer warned us about?
- Officer, I have no idea what you are talking about! I couldn't have written it, I don't know this language and it doesn't look like my handwriting, does it? It's obviously a foreign herbal book, look all these plants are not even local.
- Hmmm, what about these naked ladies?!
- Oh, they certainly mean no bad, look one of them is even holding a cross! I don't know what they are, how about you drop this pointless trial and join me on the quest of deciphering the Voynich Manuscript?
- The WHAT manuscript now?