Thread for random remarks and questions about Voynich images

[Jorge_Stolfi]

f30v-The Ages of Men grouped around a
f31r-Dying man with cane and rosary walking to his grave wheel

For VMS f87r2 f85r2 we already have a much better candidate for the source: some German book with a poem and an illustration for each season.   It is in a thread somehwere. It includes a version of the "Dying Man" (above f31r), but also sources for the other three people ...

... with the usual copying mistakes, like a triple-ring rosary and turning a doctor's urine sample bottle into a perfume jar...

f61r-Towers with one and two prongs on top of the roof resembling the ones in the VM Rosette

Those must be everywhere in Central Europe.  One that is a good match to the Rosettes is in downtown Prague, at the end of the Nepomuk(?) bridge.  It is even flanked by two smaller towers, like in the VMS. 

the VM stars almost all have 7+ rays.

There are a few with 6 rays, e.g. on f68r3, f70v2, .  I have tabulated all those in the Zodiac and most of Cosmo, if you are interested...

Also water is always green, not blue. Perhaps it was too expensive for large areas?

According to McCrone, the blue pigment is azurite, a copper mineral, often used as pigment.  They could not identify the green pigment but said it was some copper "resinate,  I suppose they meant "salt of an organic acid", like what one gets by mixing a copper salt with common soap.

Azurite was much cheaper than the luxury pigment ultramarine (lapis lazuli), but probably more expensive than that green "copper resinate".  So cost may have been a reason for why the Painter painted pools and big tubs green.

On the other hand, "water is blue" is a cultural dogma, like "tree trunks are brown".  In reality bodies of water are often green, and tree trunks usually are more often gray, green, black, ...

All the best --stolfi