28-09-2025, 08:13 PM
(28-09-2025, 11:32 AM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..]
Voynich Manuscript is a medieval work showing Italian and German influences. [..]
No, it doesn't
There are just some very few details which show motives with an "Italian" relation, the notorious "swallow-tails" in 3 or 4 spots of whole manuscript.
Such swallow-tails were built onto several fortress walls, but also at locations up to a line between Moscow and Trapezunt. (it is not from Moscow, those walls came later). But Trapezunt and Genuese harbors of Crimea had swallow-tails already during the 15th century.
And there is nothing nearly close of German(ic) origins in the complete VMS.
So where is any valid evidence for such influences?
Or otherwise: if you take a picture of the Chinese wall and put this photo into a book:
- are you Chinese then?
- is your book chinese?
- is the image chinese?
- are you influenced by China?
The only sure thing is that your camera is chinese, whatever you use.
We can discuss the extension and definition of "influence", but for VMS "being Italian and German influenced" there is not more proof than for Celtic, just the "consensus" of all Believers Of The Church Of Alpine Origin".
Not much, some hints to slavic/eastern european influences are even better than those more religious hallucinations.