Thread for random remarks and questions about Voynich images

[Jorge_Stolfi]

The thread is "Getting close to a source for f85r2", I think.
(you sure you mean f87r2?)

Yes, f85r2, sorry.

With this particular image, I can see how the "rosary" twists into 3 loops now!

Indeed, it shows that the rosary in depicitons of that allegory could have round white beads, like those in f85r2.

Which raises the question: if the Scribe was copying the scene from a book -- like your citation above, or any of the other sources that have been posted -- how could he not understand that the "loop of little circles" was a rosary?

Maybe he was not a very bright person (and that may be why he became a second-rate Scribe and not a merchant or University professor...)   

Maybe he was a 13-year-old boy who did not yet know how to "read" such allegorical paintings.  

Maybe he did not know what a rosary was...

All the best, --stolfi