07-10-2016, 11:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2016, 11:35 AM by Diane.
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R.Sale,
Yes, of course there are objective methods and standards, as you suggest.
In the world beyond Voynich studies, if you purchase a manuscript or an image in any medium, you could normally count on the manuscript-qua-manuscript's being *correctly* assigned its place and time in a couple of weeks or so.
About provenancing individual images, or disentangling evidence of diverse influences and evolution of imagery over time ... that takes rather more time, work, care, attention to detail, and solid study - usually supplemented by a fair amount of practice.
Complete exegesis of the art in any manuscript, even one whose style is consistent with that where it was made (as the Vms imagery is not) can can take rather a long time... To use my favourite (because non-Voynich) example...People are still finding items to add to to our understanding of the Celtic forms in the Book of Kells.
Yes, of course there are objective methods and standards, as you suggest.
In the world beyond Voynich studies, if you purchase a manuscript or an image in any medium, you could normally count on the manuscript-qua-manuscript's being *correctly* assigned its place and time in a couple of weeks or so.
About provenancing individual images, or disentangling evidence of diverse influences and evolution of imagery over time ... that takes rather more time, work, care, attention to detail, and solid study - usually supplemented by a fair amount of practice.
Complete exegesis of the art in any manuscript, even one whose style is consistent with that where it was made (as the Vms imagery is not) can can take rather a long time... To use my favourite (because non-Voynich) example...People are still finding items to add to to our understanding of the Celtic forms in the Book of Kells.