08-09-2025, 03:37 PM
(08-09-2025, 08:28 AM)quimqu wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.One of the things that intrigues me most about the Voynich manuscript is the poor quality of its drawings.
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Would not say that.
On my last way step-by-step through the VMS' pages I noticed that there are only very few mistakes and corrections not only in the the texts, but also in the drawings.
I do not refer to the work of the "retracer" (and scribbler) who brought his contribution authorized some some ~20 minutes or just for fun 200 years later, or somewhere within this timespan.
The very most elements are drawn in a one-stroke manner with quite a sure hand -- I noticed that when I just tried to redraw some unused areas of the tents at "map" and other elements there.
The scale and size does not matter so much: medieval draftsmen were trained to paint miniatures into capital letters, so the size of VMS drafts may not be quite as challenging as we might see it today.
At all, VMS looks more to be hastily and carelessly written and drawn - several lines of texts are dangerously dropping as all writers refused to use auxiliary lines or just a ruler, and also there are circles which look more like an accident and were not made with the help of a circle, meanwile other elements were.
This may point to VMS being a low-quality, economy-class product with production time as crucial problem.