27-03-2026, 07:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 27-03-2026, 07:48 PM by JustAnotherTheory.)
To me, the fact that almost everything about the VMS is alien, points to the fact that the creator(s) is (are) alien as well. In the sense of being alien to the general scribe/illuminator profession.
It seems as if someone(s) wanted to copy motifs and patterns from many existing manuscripts, like Taccola, the BnF herbal, and Bellifortis, but without ever having drawn a single flower or diagram before in their life.
Someone like a charlatan. Checks out to me. This seems like a good theory.
The only issue is, that the VMS is 200+ folios of material, which would require an extraordinary amount of work and hard labour. Wouldn't a charlatan be content with 50, or 100 pages or simple herbal illustrations? Why the variation in the illustrations? Why the text, that looks almost like a language and obeys Zip's law?
It seems as if someone(s) wanted to copy motifs and patterns from many existing manuscripts, like Taccola, the BnF herbal, and Bellifortis, but without ever having drawn a single flower or diagram before in their life.
Someone like a charlatan. Checks out to me. This seems like a good theory.
The only issue is, that the VMS is 200+ folios of material, which would require an extraordinary amount of work and hard labour. Wouldn't a charlatan be content with 50, or 100 pages or simple herbal illustrations? Why the variation in the illustrations? Why the text, that looks almost like a language and obeys Zip's law?