(07-11-2016, 08:31 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I stumbled on this illustration from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., Rudolf von Ems’s World Chronicle, Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, about 1400–10
The windows of this wooden sauna (?) reminded me of those in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
I would be interested in seeing more parallels for the interesting "architecture" in the Voynich illustration.
Marco, I can't remember the name of it right now, because I looked at hundreds of medieval spa locations, but there was a natural spa somewhere in Italy or central Europe that had parts of it built up in Roman and medieval times with local stones so that it resembles a number of the VMS pool pages and it also, at one time, had a building with arched windows (which is described in old books but which no longer exists).
Modern spas have been built over some of these natural spa areas (especially the ones with thermal pools), so many of them have been completely obliterated.
The one I'm thinking of was next to the shore across from the natural and man-made pools and it's still fairly natural. Out of hundreds, I found about five locations in Europe and west Asia that were strikingly similar to the VMS pool pages if you take the various kinds and shapes of pools as a whole. Unfortunately, I looked them up a long time ago before I became disciplined at keeping records of where I found them, but if I can locate some of the screen snaps, I'll post them.

