Koen G > 06-08-2021, 06:40 PM
Linda > 06-08-2021, 11:58 PM
Antonio García Jiménez > 07-08-2021, 04:37 PM
Antonio García Jiménez > 10-08-2021, 03:40 PM
tavie > 10-08-2021, 09:42 PM
(10-08-2021, 03:40 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think it is clear that the Rosettes page is a medieval representation of the universe with its interconnected concentric spheres, although they appear unfolded in the VM, which can make interpretation more difficult.
I am not the first to say this. Others have already done it before, among them the great researcher of the VM Mary D' Imperio.
What I add is that the book is completely homogeneous and iconographically coherent and that it only speaks of one thing, of the same message: the influence of the stars on medicinal herbs
Antonio García Jiménez > 11-08-2021, 04:55 PM
tavie > 11-08-2021, 10:51 PM
(11-08-2021, 04:55 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.D'Imperio already implied that it could be some kind of synthesis of the author's vision of the 'cosmos' and I find this idea attractive.
This sentence was written in this forum by René Zandbergen in 2016 in relation to the Rosettes page. I don't know where he got the quote, but I do not think there is any doubt that René is a reliable source.
Quote:Anyway, in a book half of which are cosmological diagrams, I wonder: Can the Rosettes page be anything other than a medieval representation of the universe?
Antonio García Jiménez > 12-08-2021, 10:13 AM
Antonio García Jiménez > 15-08-2021, 05:25 PM
Ranceps > 15-08-2021, 06:13 PM
(15-08-2021, 05:25 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is it possible to understand the VM script?
I do not think so. It was not in the XVII and XX centuries, nor do I think it will be in the XXI
I think the only way to understand the script is by first interpreting the imagery.
The solution can only come from the comparison with similar objects of its time. There are images in the VM that can be compared to other contemporary ones. Other images have no comparison but they force us to interpret them based on the culture of their time. The script, as I believe, may only be a consequence of the message implicit in the imagery.
So far, the book has been more scrutinized by linguists and cryptographers that by art historians or experts in medieval iconography. Greater participation by the latter may bring new points of view.