A general look at handheld objects

[Sam G]

Koen Gh,

Not to sound negative, but I find the subject of the post to be too broad: it seems to me that the relationship between the various Voynich people and the objects they hold is possibly very different in the various sections of the Manuscript, and even within the "bathy" section.

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But maybe I'm missing the point? As I said, the subject of this post is so broad it's almost unwieldly.

It's a pretty bizarre criticism, because considering all the cases where a human figure holds an object in totality would seem to be the only way to determine if there are in fact different relationships between the people and the objects they hold in different sections, and in fact statements about this are among his conclusions (e.g. noting that the crossbowman seems different from all the other cases).

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And  your two statements above that "the differences between sections is exactly my point" and that you want to understand how "handheld objects function in general" are contradictory.

No, they aren't, because there is no reason why one cannot do both.