Re: VMs: Agnus Dei

["Larry Roux" <LRoux@xxxxxxx>]

I think calling that a sheep is a bit of a stretch.  It looks more like an armadillo to me (not that I am proposing it is, it just looks like one, is all)



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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> dscott520@xxxxxxx 02/05/04 09:57AM >>>
Looking at the second part of the drawing on the left hand side of f80v (in 
front of text lines 12-14), I noticed what appears to be another sheep 
illustration in the VMS (ref. the group of animals at the bottom of f79v for 
the other sheep).

I can detect in f80v, starting from the left side of the referenced drawing, 
a tail, fleece, legs, paws, and what appears to be a narrow head profile, 
facing down, replete with lips, possible eye, and ear or horn.

Could this be a reference to the Golden Fleece, Sacrificial (paschal) Lamb, 
or Lamb of God (Agnus Dei)?

http://www.flamingjesus.com/voynich/f80v.jpg 

Sheep:
http://www.erbst.com/Tina_1999.jpg 

Paschal Lamb:
http://www.wordsonfire.net/Italy/Florence/architecture/pages/Lamb.htm 
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/dfg/jesu/mem3.jpg 
http://www.reparteegallery.com/ll23.php 
http://www.stmarybletchingley.org.uk/section/11 

The Order of the Golden Fleece:
http://www.antiquesatoz.com/sgfleece/origins.htm 

Lamb:
http://www.celticconnectionsradio.org/weekphoto/irish_lamb.jpg 



Regards,
Dana Scott 
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