Re: VMs: Re: Voynich MS Theory

["Colin Robson" <c.robson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hey nick,

having had the good fortune to visit napoli a number of times.. i can see
where you are coming from regarding the castle in the middle of the bay...
the castel dell'ovo seems to have been around or it's location used for a
long time maybe 1st cent onwards by the romans. but from what i have read of
it's history it seems to have been used more as a prison and military
fortification than anything else.

As for the milano castle. it's walls seem to stretch nearly all the way
around the rosette, as there are towers on the walls (i think that it could
represent some kind of walled garden, although the castle itself looks like
it is sat on a cliff face, with the cliffs being represented as two wide
lines that come off left from the castle.), the stars could just as easily
represent the sea... with maybe the writing representing some kind of
whirlpool.... who knows!

i definetly do not think that the castle in the middle are seed pods. I am
open to all theories, but that it could be classed as venezia puzzles me
somewhat, as if the map represented somekind of map of italia surely
something depicting roma should be in the middle.... I only believed it was
arabic because the 'bulb' shaped towers remind me of palaces that sultans
may have lived in.. from what i can see there are 6 towers, with equal
spacing between each two.. hence TT--TT--TT-- etc.

This middle castle (pepper grinders...whatever!), whatever it's origins has
to be important.... after all i'm sure if you were creating a map in the
middle ages.. you'd probably put what you believe the most important
location is in the middle, and make everything else relative to it...

only ideas... but.. hey..it might lead somewhere!!

Colin Robson
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BSc (Hons) Software Engineering

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Voynich MS Theory


> Hi Colin,
>
> >For example in the fold out 'map' page the centre circle has a castle
(whos
> >architectural style looks distinctly arabic), and another castle(medieval
> >european style i think) with walls surrounding the circle and connection
to
> >the top middle circle too.
>
> I'm glad that you too see the central circle as something like a Byzantine
> castle (rather than "seed pods", which seems to be the consensus
> interpretation): following Phil Neal's suggestion, I think it probably
> represents Venice.
>
> The "classic" castle I think represents Milan (drawn in the tradition of
> circular maps of Milan throughout the Quattrocento), with Pavia depicted
> nearby. I think Naples is also represented on the page as a long low
castle
> by the sea (between two of the rosettes)... but who knows?
>
> Make of it all what you will! :-o
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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