MarcoP > 09-04-2018, 03:04 PM
(08-04-2018, 10:23 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.MarcoP,
thank you for the interesting comparisons.
The more such examples are presented, the more we may see that some of the "peculiarities" of the Voynich may well turn out to actually be quite common, and hopefully even characteristics of certain local practices.
Quote:For me, one of the most intriguing questions regarding color annotations in the Voynich is this:
We can find color annotations in the "herbal" or "big plants" section of the Voynich, but in none of the others. Why is this?
Quote:I remember from one of the papers cited in the thread you reference that one of the main purposes of color annotations was to indicate places where alternating colors were to be applied.
This is the type of use that we see in the leaves of your example of f1v.
But:
Outside of the big plant section, there are several sections with illustrations which feature alternating colors (for example: 67r1, or 69r, or the 9-rosette foldout, or the red/yellow stars in Q20, among others) yet these do not feature any color annotations.
Why the inconsistency?
Could this indicate that the choice of colors applied to those non-annotated illustrations didn't matter, and so the scribe left the painter free to add whatever colors he wanted?
Quote:Or could this be a clue that the Voynich could be a copy of several distinct works: an herbal which contained color annotations, and other works which did not?
Quote:Or...???
(Sorry if I'm going off on a speculation tangent! The simultaneous presence and absence of color annotations in different parts of the Voynich is something that really intrigues me. )
-JKP- > 09-04-2018, 06:21 PM
(09-04-2018, 10:07 AM)Hubert Dale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Can anyone say whether the plants which have the colour indicators are those for which it's easy to come up with identifications? Might someone in the fifteenth century have come across the unilluminated VMS, scratched their head, and gone to another illustrated herbal and matched plants and colours as best they could?
-JKP- > 09-04-2018, 06:35 PM
(09-04-2018, 11:13 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - what appears to be an occurrence of "rot" in reddish paint...
-JKP- > 09-04-2018, 07:26 PM
Anton > 09-04-2018, 10:08 PM
Quote:f32r - an only partially reading annotation. Rene's description: "A 'p' and what looks like a 'v' or an 'r' in the bottom right flower. There could be another character after the 'p'." This is similar to the annotation in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (por?), but it cannot be the same, because the letter after the 'p' (if it does exist) cannot be an 'o'. The word could also resemble the annotation "prau[n]" in the Vicenza ms I mentioned above, but a flower seems more likely to be purple than brawn.
Anton > 09-04-2018, 10:15 PM
-JKP- > 09-04-2018, 10:22 PM
-JKP- > 09-04-2018, 10:36 PM
Hubert Dale > 10-04-2018, 11:48 AM
(09-04-2018, 07:26 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Does You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. also have text in the flowers?
I removed some of the blue and the one on the right does look like a brown glyph. The one on the left is not so clear.
Anton > 10-04-2018, 06:06 PM