Koen G > 14-08-2016, 08:46 AM
ReneZ > 14-08-2016, 09:39 AM
MarcoP > 14-08-2016, 12:16 PM
(12-08-2016, 07:21 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is a lone mineral-like object in the small-plants pages but as I've already mentioned on the blog, there's a distinct lack of non-plant medicinal ingredients in the VMS, ingredients that are found in many other herbals.
EllieV > 14-08-2016, 12:48 PM
(14-08-2016, 07:04 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is certainly correct that the herbs shown in the Voynich MS do not (clearly) match any sequence known from other herbal MSs, but the herbal or botanical part of it (one can name it what one wants) is clearly modelled after medieval herbal MSs.
Sam G > 14-08-2016, 01:17 PM
(14-08-2016, 08:46 AM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What was the reasoning of these experts to say that MS Beinecke 408 was "clearly modelled after medieval herbal MSs"? Why not an example of an earlier tradition of which all other examples are lost? The "lost tradition" part is really not so extraordinary, taking into account the massive amount of works that have been lost and the extreme coincidence by which one or two copies of others have survived. Many works are only known to us because of one surviving copy, and we know, for example by mention in other texts, that many others are completely lost.
It's plants with text. To say that it is clearly modelled after the medieval tradition is like saying that tigers are modelled after lions. Who can tell, without years of study and the proper methods, which came first and what is the relationship between both?
don of tallahassee > 14-08-2016, 06:26 PM
Linda > 14-08-2016, 09:54 PM
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don of tallahassee > 16-08-2016, 03:13 PM