The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Legit]

You do know that the "artist here" is me, right? In any case, as the artist, I can answer: Not much thought was put into strict distinctions past a certain level, it's just a cartoon.

I didn't know, but I understand and would just say that the possibilities for your argument gets even narrower - Wilfrid Voynich employed the same cartoon symbol for armadillo hide as you did.  I searched and couldn't find any other modern artist that used the same style for an armadillo.  Of course there could still be, but the likelihood get smaller.

One thing that made me take a closer look was how careful the medieval armadillos from other documents were drawn in contrast to the common mix ups between sheep and goats and other creatures which they should have been very familiar with.

I didn't copy all of your points, because of course they are all valid musings on your part, as mine are, for things we just don't know for certain. And we've given our alternate viewpoints on all these already.

But on the part I left, above: What did you mean by "Wilfrid Voynich employed the same cartoon symbol for armadillo hide as you did.  I searched and couldn't find any other modern artist that used the same style for an armadillo.  Of course there could still be, but the likelihood get smaller."

I mean, where do you believe Voynich "... employed the same cartoon symbol for armadillo hide as you did..."? I mean, I do think this, in effect, but why do you say this?

And also, you wrote, "I searched and couldn't find any other modern artist that used the same style for an armadillo." Did you mean the "same style" as the Voynich illustration, or the "same style" as mine?

Not being snarky, I'm really curious what you meant. Sorry I was confused...

Rich

The artist of the Florentine Codex when he simplified the complex shapes of an armadillos hide drew a curving grid.  The theory is that Wilfrid drew an armadillo with wavy lines the way you did.

This reasoning was to determine if it is a common way a cartoonist/artist would represent this animal?  If I had found lots of cartoons drawn the same way, I could say it was a common way to perceive an armadillo (and I'm being overly pedantic) and use that as support that the intention of the drawing in the VM was an armadillo.  Instead this makes it increasingly unlikely that anyone drawing an armadillo would use wavy scale shapes since your cartoon was the only one I could find.