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To all the experts and folk like me,
First timer Sebastian inspired me to write.
All of us have our fields of expertise; mine are astronomy and history of
medieval technology... that's why I design furniture. It's an odd
world.
As I mentioned in my other post responding to
Sebastian's question about a copy of the MS, I've just spent a good deal of time
compiling a PDF of the complete MS and by focusing so closely on the big picture
for a couple of weeks, these questions came to mine...FWIW...
1. Is there any significance to the
ambiguous spacing after <r> and <s> characters in the
text?
2. Is it of any significance to the fact that
the <l> character shows up within the drawings of f65v (the branch) and
f73r (the tail)?
3. Why is "Scorpio's" depicted as a dog-like
creature and "cancer" as crayfish-esc animals (two, at that)? I'm looking
into the historical/cultural roots of this myself.
4. Has anyone codified the root and leaf
appearances from the first section vs. those in the "medicinal" section?
5. Has anyone attempted to read the Schmidl
biography of Jacobus Horcicky who can give some details thereof? Is it available
anywhere in print?
At this point of my VMS endeavors, I'm in the question phase vs. the
analytical one... bear with me.
Ciao,
Ken |