Re: VMs: Re: swallow-tail merlons revisited

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Rafal T. Prinke wrote:

> Is there any reason why the VMS couldn't have been made
> in Bohemia itself? After all, Panofsky suggested
> Central Europe as its provenience - after looking
> at it from less than 10 meters' distance :-)

	I don't see why not!  AIRC, Panofsky's reasons were 
paleographic, but I don't recall what they were.  Rene has 
that on his site.

	I think Toresella thought that the VMs was written in 
northern Italy, and that is one reason for the idea's 
persistence here.  I'm not sure why he thought so.  He wrote 
about alchemical herbals, most of which came from northern 
Italy, but he also noted that the VMs is sui generis.  He 
also said that one sees the influence of the "humanist hand" 
in the Voynich script, though I don't know whether that 
should limit it to northern Italy.  So I still don't know 
why he thought so.  Maybe we should ask his current opinion, 
if someone can contact him.

	I once thought that the VMs might have come from eastern 
Europe, simply because it is less known than western Europe. 
 Someone noted that eastern Europe was and is less wealthy 
and less likely to produce esoterica.  That is true in 
general, but there were exceptions, one of which is Rudolf's 
Prague.

	Perhaps we think northern Italy because the style seems 
early Renaissance, and northern Italy was where the 
Renaissance was happening.  True again, but it was happening 
elsewhere too, though perhaps later.  Then there's Vat. gr. 
1291, found at the time in Brescia.

	Wherever that leaves you...

Dennis
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