Re: VMs: Re: swallow-tail merlons revisited

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 22:25 09/08/2005 -0500, Dennis wrote:
>         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.

FWIW, Sergio's opinion was based on having travelled all over the world to 
closely examine many hundreds of medieval & early modern herbals, not just 
"alchemical herbals". Naturally, he had a good look at the VMs along the 
way. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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