24-09-2026, 03:56 PM
(23-09-2026, 11:26 AM)Joerg Fuchs wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..]
So what if the Voynich was created by a person with mental illness? I wouldn´t wonder if something like that has happened[..]
That would mean 2-5 quite skilled scribes /authors did much work to produce or (copy)write a lot of text around some pictures from a lunatic.
With expensive materials, time-consuming and obviously some kind of re-working ("retracing") later.
All a bit too much for a therapy session.
I agree with the idea of most or all "plant images" maybe being only fantasy pictures for decoration, or for separating text blocks - at last, there is not really a hint that those plant chapters are anyhow a "herbal" at all.