ReneZ > 02-01-2017, 12:41 PM
Sam G > 02-01-2017, 01:26 PM
(02-01-2017, 12:41 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If one prefers to think that the handwriting throughout the MS has to be from more than one person, then it could equally well be two, where one did all the drawings and some writing, and the other the rest of the writing.
Koen G > 02-01-2017, 01:50 PM
Anton > 02-01-2017, 02:42 PM
-JKP- > 02-01-2017, 04:34 PM
davidjackson > 02-01-2017, 05:20 PM
Quote:So... it is not unusual for a remedy or charm to be added at the end of a book.Not unusual at all. People often used blank spaces in books to note down births and deaths, or even, as you say, completely unrelated ideas notes.
-JKP- > 02-01-2017, 06:09 PM
(02-01-2017, 05:20 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Quote:So... it is not unusual for a remedy or charm to be added at the end of a book.Not unusual at all. People often used blank spaces in books to note down births and deaths, or even, as you say, completely unrelated ideas notes.
But not usually the scribes.
If we start from the assumption that the writing is by one of the scribes -as suggested by the fluency of the Voynichese- then we reduce the possibilities of what it is likely to be.
I still think it's two different notes. One is likely to be a curse of protection, the other could even be a colophon.
davidjackson > 03-01-2017, 07:04 AM
-JKP- > 03-01-2017, 07:26 AM
(03-01-2017, 07:04 AM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Without wanting to suggest any sociological shift, I'd say that the flooding of the market with cheap printed books, together with rising literacy rates, helped to destroy much of the mystique of these old manuscripts.
Hence, people in the 16-18 centuries had a tendency to use blank space as notepaper. You come across some quite bizarre notes just jotted down.
Genealogical records are quite common in books of hours, for example - people knew the books would be kept for generations so they wrote down birth dates for posterity.
But that's not what we're seeing in the VM, whose notes seem to suggest some sort of link with the original content.
Which is why I suggested the colophon link - it could be another one of those 'finally finished this pox leber of a book' annotations
-JKP- > 03-01-2017, 08:08 AM