RenegadeHealer > 22-02-2021, 05:06 PM
bi3mw > 22-02-2021, 06:19 PM
(22-02-2021, 05:06 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This question is especially worth asking in light of Alain Touwaide's professional judgement that the VMs is not a typical medieval herbal, and quite possibly not an herbal at all.Can you please say when and in which context Alain Touwaide made this statement ? I am honestly a bit surprised. After all, a considerable part of the illustrations in the VMS consists of plants. At least this part makes, from my point of view, strongly the impression of an herbal.
RenegadeHealer > 22-02-2021, 08:15 PM
(22-02-2021, 06:19 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(22-02-2021, 05:06 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This question is especially worth asking in light of Alain Touwaide's professional judgement that the VMs is not a typical medieval herbal, and quite possibly not an herbal at all.Can you please say when and in which context Alain Touwaide made this statement ? I am honestly a bit surprised. After all, a considerable part of the illustrations in the VMS consists of plants. At least this part makes, from my point of view, strongly the impression of an herbal.
Quote:"In the Voynich I find a coherence, but above all an incoherence. The manuscript borrows some iconographic motifs, but assembles them in figures that are not realistic. So, there is a coherence from the point of view of iconographic language, but an incoherence in the assembly. And it is this aspect that makes me say that it was not a herbarium to be used in medical practice, but a creation, a caricature, an imitation, a game", explained Touwaide.(emphasis mine)
Koen G > 22-02-2021, 08:33 PM
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-JKP- > 22-02-2021, 10:33 PM
(22-02-2021, 02:31 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's the drawings in the alchemical herbals that I would refer to as "fantasy".
There are several authoritative sources for these herbals.
These manuscripts are quite consistent in all respects: illustrations, text and naming of the plants.
I can remember one "fish root" and Marco had a nice blog post about it, which I have not been able to find back
-JKP- > 22-02-2021, 11:44 PM
Aga Tentakulus > 23-02-2021, 03:18 AM
Wladimir D > 23-02-2021, 07:24 AM
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