[Blog Post] The Pattern of the Wheel on 57v

[Koen G]

But as far as the text and images go, for what I know, the Voynich MS has a very strange combination of features, so it's not clear if there is any use comparing it with other contemporary manuscripts.

I agree on this point. What I mostly remembered from that talk is that there is nothing like the VM within its timeframe.

I do not oppose the general idea that it's so unusual yet coherent, that we'd expect a single "mind" behind it. But in that regard, we may as well compare it to the postmodern Codex Serafinianus.

Or to Hildegard. Her secret words and signs functioned in an interpersonal context. Others knew of them and presumably used them to some extent. Still one mind, but the activity was socially embedded. The idea of a cooperative project is not too far off, then.