Re: VMs: On the use of quills

["GC" <gc-@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a follow-up, Julie, you said you got a paragraph before re-inking, but
this guy only gets a couple of words at best.  What would be this cause?
Not a quill?  Plucking chickens?

GC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: On the use of quills


> Hi Julie,
>
> As far as quills go, which type of feathers do you think were used for the
> VMs? I've long suspected that many aspects of "Hand 1" and "Hand 2" might
> have arisen from the physical properties of different types of feather
> selected for the quills, but without knowing how best to properly evaluate
> that suspicion. :-o
>
> At 14:22 10/08/2004 -0700, Julie Porter wrote:
> >An interesting exercise for the reader would be to
> >determine if the Vms plants follow the Fibonacci and fractal constructs
> >found in the prototype plants the Vms plants seem to be derived from.
>
> The most mathematically satisfying plant in the VMs is f56r, which has its
> leaves arranged in an inverse hyperbolic spiral. This probably indicates a
> Moslem transmission route for the image (and possibly an Egyptian source)
> according to Stan Tenen (who I quoted on-list a few years ago):-
>          http://www.voynich.net/Arch/2001/12/msg00010.html
>
> But f56r aside, I should say that I think the diagrammatical language of
> the herbals (taken as a whole) is neither fractal, nor even particularly
> mathematical, nor Qabbalistic, nor alchemical. Recently, Sergio Toresella
> told me that he thinks that though the VMs stylistically resembles the
> family of alchemical herbals (but isn't one of them), he actually suspects
> that its roots may lie closer to the (semi-)naturalistic Greek Dioscorides
> discussed on-list last month.
>
> BTW: nice to have you back. FWIW, I'm very interested in your dating
> (1480-1520, IIRC?) based on the hairstyles - it's one of the few
> independent ways people have thought to date the VMs. Did you ever write
> that up? In this age of digital cameras, it might be nice to place some
> pictures of reconstructed hairstyles placed beside some art source
material
> to illustrate your reasoning. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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