Thread for random remarks and questions about Voynich images

[Koen G]

Does anyone know of similar rotae to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. or You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., different than You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Juan Sali posted?

[MarcoP]

Hi Koen,
some houses of the moon diagrams show the shapes of the relevant asterisms. See for instance those that were discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. In my opinion, the German manuscript looks closer to the VMS (and it certainly is closer in time).

Medieval constellation figures usually come with the corresponding human or animal image, not with star patterns like these. In the Voynich diagrams, it is not clear if the stars are meaningful or not: in many diagrams the sectors are very similar to each other, so the stars do not appear to be very significant.

[Scarecrow]

Something familiar. 
Genealogy of Edward IV

[Scarecrow]

And a quite familiar face.

[Aga Tentakulus]

    Yes, you are right. I know the sister.

[Scarecrow]

Was this gap between the first capital letter and rest of the line common? 

"The earliest literary document in English in the University of Nottingham’s collections is a fragment from the life of St Bridget, from the South English Legendary, composed in the late thirteenth century. The scribe uses the Anglo-Saxon letters ‘yogh’ for ‘y’ or ‘g’ (ȝ) and thorn for ‘th’ (þ). He leaves a wide gap between the first capital letter of each line and the rest of the word.

See the words ‘This’ ('Þ  is') at the start of line 2, and ‘begat’ ('byȝat') in the middle of line 3."

[nablator]

Was this gap between the first capital letter and rest of the line common?

In poetry yes, it is common, but in the VMs this column is not well aligned with the paragraphs' lines so it is unclear if the purpose is the same.

[Scarecrow]

Stars look a bit familiar

[merrimacga]

They do indeed.

Scarecrow's image is from the Morgan Library's Computus Collection, Italy, possibly Piacenza, 1018-1032, MS M.925 folio 35r: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

[R. Sale]

Structurally, there are two types of medieval artistic technique for the representation of stars. French illustrations often show stars composed by the crossing of short lines (of gold paint). These can be characterized as asterisk stars. They contrast with stars that were intentionally drawn with interior spaces. Often composed of polygons, they can be characterized as polygonal stars.

The VMs has examples of both types.