06-07-2026, 09:41 PM
Why would you write 'color' in a color annotation?
OT question: Do we have a spreadsheet or graph where in the VM which color annotations are? Are they clustered in bifolios?
I think it's worth looking into other copies of Peter Schöffer's print of Gart der Gesundheit from 1485.
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Obviously, the print has no color annotations
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Couldn't find a digitized version
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, ms. 2152 (olim L germ. 221.kl.2º)
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Similar plants, also absolutely horrible paint job, but much more orderly text, not flowing around illustrations. Few color annotations, mostly at the beginning. Apparently both in German and Latin. Some were not honored. No vertical in-stem annotations.
So what to make of this?
BSB Cgm 728 by far is the most 'voynichy' of those Gart der Gesundheit copies so far. Maybe there are more.
The authors of those hand-copies of prints added a few (when and why?) color annotations that were not present in the source. Someone did an abysmal paint job and sometimes didn't even honor those few annotations. Both apparently wasn't uncommon and isn't unique to the VM. The question is when this workflow started. Was it something typical for the very late 15th century or did the same happen much earlier?
OT question: Do we have a spreadsheet or graph where in the VM which color annotations are? Are they clustered in bifolios?
I think it's worth looking into other copies of Peter Schöffer's print of Gart der Gesundheit from 1485.
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Obviously, the print has no color annotations
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Couldn't find a digitized version
Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, ms. 2152 (olim L germ. 221.kl.2º)
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Similar plants, also absolutely horrible paint job, but much more orderly text, not flowing around illustrations. Few color annotations, mostly at the beginning. Apparently both in German and Latin. Some were not honored. No vertical in-stem annotations.
So what to make of this?
BSB Cgm 728 by far is the most 'voynichy' of those Gart der Gesundheit copies so far. Maybe there are more.
The authors of those hand-copies of prints added a few (when and why?) color annotations that were not present in the source. Someone did an abysmal paint job and sometimes didn't even honor those few annotations. Both apparently wasn't uncommon and isn't unique to the VM. The question is when this workflow started. Was it something typical for the very late 15th century or did the same happen much earlier?