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(05-01-2025, 04:49 PM)bi3mw wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well, it is of course possible that traditions are not based on facts, but also on (legendary) stories or people. Of course, this also applies to Numa Pompilius, the (alleged) reformer of the calendar.
As said, a written tradition can also make legends “true” to a certain extent (especially in the Middle Ages with limited or no access to comparative material).
A lot of early Roman (regal/pre-regal) history would seem to be the product of those speaking or writing after the fact, aiming to provide explanations, and sometimes seemingly projecting the culture at the time they were writing back onto those periods. Since so much of the Roman origin story has been made up or distorted, we don't know for sure that the 10 month calendar existed, or if it was something else that got distorted or confused over the years, and then the calendar reform story arose to explain it.
Anyway, back to the question of whether the Voynich scribe could have been following it...it's possible they knew of it, since I think Ovid's work on the calendar was available in the medieval era before the Renaissance. But it just seems a really odd choice to follow a calendar that at best hadn't been used for over two thousand years. It would seem more likely to me that the two months were removed.
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