09-02-2026, 02:32 PM
Maybe, but there's the broader issue of art history vs. Voynich manuscript. Art historians avoid going on the record about it for very good reasons.
Before reaching out to scholars, I'd like to get a better idea of the swallowtail merlons in the Weltchronik tradition first. I've skimmed a dozen of them and they all have square merlons. Only two I know of have swallowtail merlons, and those are the two instances of swallowtail merlon images we know of that were presumably made north of the Alps. So I wonder if these two are related (they are both from the same area), and if that relation may be a stronger indication than the Weltchronik genre itself.
Wait, I just found another one. I'll make a new thread.
Before reaching out to scholars, I'd like to get a better idea of the swallowtail merlons in the Weltchronik tradition first. I've skimmed a dozen of them and they all have square merlons. Only two I know of have swallowtail merlons, and those are the two instances of swallowtail merlon images we know of that were presumably made north of the Alps. So I wonder if these two are related (they are both from the same area), and if that relation may be a stronger indication than the Weltchronik genre itself.
Wait, I just found another one. I'll make a new thread.