Re: VMs: Finding

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,

Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the coloring was done by the
original scribe/author of the VMS. BTW, is the 9-Rosette copy that you have
in H.P. Kraus Catalogue 100? Thanks.

Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Finding


> Hi Rene,
>
> >In the mean time, what do you mean with the '5 main
> >parts'?
>
> If the 9 rosettes are numbered
>          #1  #2  #3
>          #4  #5  #6
>          #7  #8  #9
> (with the infamous castle rosette at #3), then #2 and #8 are very similar,
> both appearing to look like abstract "windmills", or "steam turbines"
(stop
> me if you've heard it before), only #2 has thirteen "rotors", and #8 has
> seven "rotors". #4 also seems to contain a smaller copy of #8 inside it. I
> can't be sure about #6 (even the photo in Kraus is unclear), but to my
eyes
> it seems abstract (rather than referential) in a similar way to #2, #4,
and #8.
>
> That leaves the five rosettes I'm specifically talking about - the four
> corners and the centre.
>
> Incidentally, there appears to be some very faint non-Voynichese writing
on
> the inside of the outer ring of #8, in the top-right quadrant (you can
just
> make them out on Rene's colour image) - I don't recall anyone remarking on
> this before?
>
> >There is one scan of the page already, which is not
> >great, but the only colour one available at the
> >moment. Does anything you're referring to show
> >up on that one?
> >http://www.voynich.nu/img/clips/rosettes.gif
>
> Looking at the colour image again, I'm interested to note that only three
> of the seven "gaps" between rotors in the #8 rosette are coloured yellow,
> and likewise for only some of the tips of (what I suspect are) the
minarets
> in the centre rosette (#5)... yet in the #4 rosette, the rotors are
yellow,
> not the gaps... very curious. :-o
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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