24-07-2025, 09:42 AM
(24-07-2025, 12:20 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The castle on the rosettes page was just mentioned, which is a good example.
This not just looks like a castle - it is one. I cannot imagine that many will disagree.
Even this is debatable. We have seen examples of Italian civic buildings in the same style (the name of the city it was in escapes me right now). Or alternatively, walled structures on maps that to us look like castles are often shorthand for cities. So it may not be a castle in the strict sense, and it may not even stand for a single building.
I think it is specifically lack of context that makes building up an argument about the Voynich images so incredibly difficult. Most anonymous paintings, manuscripts etc are much easier to contextualize. And that is what proper iconographical analysis needs. With the Voynich, any contextualization is limited and shaky, and so are the arguments we can build upon it.

