-JKP- > 30-04-2016, 12:04 PM
(30-04-2016, 11:28 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'll just drop this here, I found a pretty decent drawing of the Voynich archer by someone on Imgur. Sure weird to see them in a more realistic way![]()
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Koen G > 30-04-2016, 12:36 PM
-JKP- > 15-05-2016, 12:49 PM
(15-05-2016, 11:39 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By coincidence I ran into a lion (of sorts) with blue dots (among others):
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Oocephalus > 15-05-2016, 03:20 PM
Quote:Good one, René. Not only spots, but maneless, like a leopard, but most certainly intended as St. Mark. I haven't seen that image before.
-JKP- > 16-05-2016, 12:56 AM
(15-05-2016, 03:20 PM)Oocephalus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP:
Quote:Good one, René. Not only spots, but maneless, like a leopard, but most certainly intended as St. Mark. I haven't seen that image before.
This is from a commentary on the biblical Book of Daniel, so these are the four beasts Daniel saw in a vision (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). The one on the upper left is clearly the first beast, which is indeed described as "like a lion", and generally agreed to refer to the Babylonian empire. No idea why it was drawn like that, though.
Davidsch > 18-05-2016, 03:22 PM
VViews > 19-05-2016, 05:29 PM
(16-05-2016, 12:56 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On this subject, since the VMS Leo is maneless and has a texture that MIGHT suggest very light spots, I looked around at leopard images and found a couple in old manuscripts that were labeled leon pard and leon pardo, which led me to wonder whether northerners who had never seen a lion might assume, from the names, that a leopard was a kind of lion (a spotted one). I looked up the etymology for pard/pardus and found it is descended from words for panther and tiger.
I'm not assuming the VMS illustrator was a northerner (if the leaf is an elephant head it's a pretty accurate one and the Taurus image is more antelope-like than bull-like) but given the inaccuracy of the animals in many of the bestiaries and that some of them appear to be drawn according to what the name suggests, it may be that some thought a lion and lion-panther were more similar than they are.