VMs: Re: Liber Floridus, Opicinus, Crypto speculation and John Dee

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> A lot of rosette-like diagrams from Opicinus' codex are decorated with the
> "calendrical letters" that repeat all around the rosette (sic: a b c d e f g
> a b c d e f g ...). One of the VMS pictures at Beinecke has a similar
> repeating pattern, but here the pattern is 17 characters long. Just a wild
> guess: 7 characters for the week days + 10 digits ?

The one thing that points most strongly to the VMS being the product of 
madness is the multitude of different numbering schemes and structures that 
underlies the diagrams.

And yet the thirty stars/nymphs per sign is just about the best structured 
thing in the VMS!

So: please be *very* careful when trying to infer things from numbers of 
things in there! :-/