Linda > 02-05-2019, 04:47 PM
(02-05-2019, 07:34 AM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the double page number 110, you can see well in the margins this kind of pine cones. They are like the ripples or undulationes that we see, par example, in Nicole Oresme's Livre du Ciel et du monde, but it is as if the author wanted to represent the ripples in perspective, in space.
It is a form of representation similar to that of the VMS. You can even guess where the famous armadillo came from.
On the page 88 there is an image of the sphere curdled with stars. At the poles you can see tubes like in the VMS. They are the tubes used by the stars to go down to Earth
ReneZ > 02-05-2019, 06:22 PM
MarcoP > 02-05-2019, 10:56 PM
DONJCH > 03-05-2019, 02:50 AM
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Linda > 03-05-2019, 01:19 PM
(03-05-2019, 02:50 AM)DONJCH Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi Linda,
To me the "tubes" look rather like the mounting points for a rotating globe of the Earth, or perhaps an early attempt to represent such.
While the cloudy drawings overall may not be that similar to the pinecones, the individual bubbles with dots inside to me seem very similar to the VMS.
Koen G > 03-05-2019, 01:28 PM
Linda > 03-05-2019, 01:44 PM
(02-05-2019, 06:22 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I like is that there is a lot of 'free hand' curly stuff, which one also sees in the Voynich MS, e.g. the upper right circle of the rosettes page, and many of the paths between the circles on the outside of it.
Page 73 is a good example, but there are many. There are also the typical 'tiles' in the borders.
Finally, and inconsequentially, I like that it also has a castle. Since the MS is from Spain, this castle obviously does not have Ghibelline crenelations.
Linda > 03-05-2019, 03:04 PM
(03-05-2019, 01:28 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.About the dots and their possible meaning in the VM, I remember seeing an explanation in a family of manuscripts but unfortunately I didn't take note.
Basically, when the "scales" are mountainous terrain, one manuscript had a little "tree" or plant on each bump. In a later copy, these plants on mountains were reduced to dots or tiny dashes on scales.
So I think that dotted scales might in some cases be shorthand for mountains with vegetation, or fertile hills or whatever. But this is just extrapolated from a pair of manuscripts I can't remember, so take it with a dot of salt.
Antonio García Jiménez > 05-05-2019, 05:36 PM