Mark Knowles > 08-11-2021, 08:46 PM
(08-11-2021, 06:50 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As already mentioned, In Bruges in 1480 a surprising 25% of the guild of book illuminators were women. One could therefore speculate that a number of roughly the same magnitude were employed as scribes in the workshops. This at least does not seem unrealistic.
Of course, this says nothing about a possible female authorship.
R. Sale > 08-11-2021, 08:49 PM
Mark Knowles > 08-11-2021, 09:19 PM
(08-11-2021, 08:49 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The VMs is a unique item, its source will also be unique.
bi3mw > 08-11-2021, 10:07 PM
(08-11-2021, 08:46 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As an aside, I wonder whether one can really say that the Voynich had a professional illustrator.
Antonio García Jiménez > 08-11-2021, 10:42 PM
tavie > 08-11-2021, 11:09 PM
(08-11-2021, 04:33 PM)Antonio García Jiménez Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In our century I don't think anyone dares question this idea that the VMS is a work of women. It is very difficult to go against the current and it can end up succeeding. In the last century no one thought of that. We are a product of history, as Gadamer said.
Mark Knowles > 08-11-2021, 11:13 PM
(08-11-2021, 10:07 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....the text is written down altogether (almost) error-free.This, or some variant of it, is a statement often made. Given that we can't decipher the text we cannot say how many or how few errors there are in the manuscript. One can say something about the number of apparent corrections, but there may well be many uncorrected errors.
Koen G > 08-11-2021, 11:27 PM
bi3mw > 09-11-2021, 01:38 PM
LisaFaginDavis > 07-12-2021, 12:59 PM