25-06-2026, 07:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-06-2026, 08:01 PM by Zauriek.
Edit Reason: better phrasing
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I found a curiosity. These Pointing hands marginalia drawings. I wonder why diferent ms share this iconography.
I mean one would expect particularities depending on the individual but both are a pointing hand.
What kind of teaching or practice may have been so generalized that when a reader wanted to stand out a line of text in a ms, it has to do it with a hand? They could have made like an asterisc or like a dragon or something, it is odd.
It this could be a schoolar trait of a particular educative building, area or philosophy, it could be super awesome evidence of context. This could be an off-voynich topic to find those pointing hands in ms. Just for the fun of it, because i do not see a line of research twards the voynich, at least as it is now.
Or maybe is just better here as a curiosity, and forget about it.
I mean one would expect particularities depending on the individual but both are a pointing hand.
What kind of teaching or practice may have been so generalized that when a reader wanted to stand out a line of text in a ms, it has to do it with a hand? They could have made like an asterisc or like a dragon or something, it is odd.
It this could be a schoolar trait of a particular educative building, area or philosophy, it could be super awesome evidence of context. This could be an off-voynich topic to find those pointing hands in ms. Just for the fun of it, because i do not see a line of research twards the voynich, at least as it is now.
Or maybe is just better here as a curiosity, and forget about it.