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Alain Touwaide on the Voynich – a review by René Zandbergen
I am grateful to René Zandbergen, whose authoritative site on the Voynich manuscript can be found here, for contributing the following review:
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the acquisition by the Society of Jesus of Villa Mondragone, the Second University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ has published a new book about the Villa.
http://www.palombieditori.it/detail.php?book=1406&vetrina=venduti
The book, written in Italian, was presented to the world one month ago, on 25 February 2016 구글 사전 다운로드.
Such a volume had to include an article about the Voynich MS, and we find it on pp.141-158, written by the well-known historian of medicine Alain Touwaide, with a few small illustrations. While he is author of many …
Herbal Research Seminar
I just thought I would advertise this event, as it is obvious interest to the Voynich. It is in London on 14th October (with apologies to those far away!)
Seminar on Trade, Discovery and Influences in the History of Herbal Medicine
Website: http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/14243
Note that the deadline for registration is very soon – 14th September at 9am Jsp bulletin board download!
Details of the day:
Trade, Discovery and Influences in the History of Herbal Medicine
The aim of this day is to bring together researchers to explore issues related to trade and commerce of medicinal plants in the history of herbal medicine Thanksgiving video. Trade in medicinal plants has always been part of human culture. Historiography has tended …
Voynich plant on f100r – broccoli?
Below is an email sent to me by Dr. Ramiro Gianinazzi, Switzerland. I thought it was interesting so he gave me permission to post it. It refers to this plant on f100r:
https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f100r/0.355/0.558/4.00
Dr 웜즈 apk 다운로드. Ramiro Gianinazzi writes as follows:
“In the folio 100 is illustrated a plant which looks like a vegetable of the “brassica oleracea” family (especially broccoli) ses 달리기 다운로드.
In Italy, what is named today “broccoli”, has been used for centuries, at least since the Roman Empire period. Boccoli is the result of a selection, made by human, known in Latin language as “brachium” or simply “brassica” 카스 온라인 2 다운로드.
In the late medieval period, broccoli was widely used in some …
Voynich plant 33r
Can you help us to identify this interesting plant, with two heads in the roots, and also decode the name? See below a picture from a 15th century Italian manuscript which also has two heads in the roots Fall smell download. The manuscript is described here.
A number of people have added suggestions on these pages bgmstorage. See below for discussion.
Step 1: Look at the Voynich plant picture above. Look also at the possible name of that plant from the same page windows 10 icon.
Step 2: Look at some other expert suggestions, below, for what this plant might be. Some are borrowed from here Frozen Game.
Step 3: If you have any good suggestions for the plant, please post a …
Voynich plant 7r
Can you help us to identify this plant and also decode the name?
Step 1: Look at the Voynich plant picture above. Look also at the possible name of that plant from the same page 달래 된 장국 다운로드.
Step 2: Look at some other expert suggestions, below, for what this plant might be. Some are borrowed from here Oracle Todd download.
Step 3: If you have any good suggestions for the plant, please post a comment below 코리아캐스트 다운로드. Give the Latin genus and species name if you can.
Step 4: Can you suggest a name in any language which might resemble the Voynich word Dream Live Prismstone? If so, post a comment below.
In particular can you suggest a name from any language which …
On factors distorting the plant images of the Voynich Manuscript
Contributed by Anonymous ‘Biologist, Finland’. Many thanks to him for his insightful commentary and guidance.
Aims and limitations
This is an introductory text for people who aim to identify plant species illustrated in the Voynich Manuscript (VM, below).
The author of the present text is a Finnish Biologist who has spent some spare time with the VM illustrations. The present text is not meant to be a final scientific truth, nor is it exhaustive for all possible distortions. It merely aims to help the non-botanist student to avoid some basic misinterpretations. It is based on information availabe in March 2014. Our understanding on the contents of VM may change rapidly in case deciphering …
Italian herbal – Veneto 15th century
See other interesting manuscripts here.
This wonderful manuscript has 192 drawings of plants (Manuscript on paper Hatz of Iron download. Veneto? Italy, S. XV). It is described as follows:
“This herbal was begun in the first half of the 15th century and continued for about half a century 저 하늘에도 슬픔이 다운로드. It presents an interesting contrast between the early, conventional representation of plants and the naturalistic style, which was becoming common by the end of the century movie Into the Storm.
The roots are heavily emphasized and are often depicted as fantastic faces and creatures, e.g. the female mandragora (f. 36) and the woad plant (f yumi 다운로드. 42), which has a …
Italian herbal manuscript – Vermont
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This fascinating manuscript at the University of Vermont was brought to my attention by David Wiffler on this website, who said:
“There is a plant here:https://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f33r/0.966/0.479/1.70 that has two human heads attached to the root system Gravity download. There is a similar thing in an old Italian herbal here: http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/item/mrmc002&page=1&size= (you will have to go to the page and, using the box in the top right hand corner, jump to page 70).”
“This Italian herbal is the closest match I’ve seen for the Voynich m 롱 리브 더 킹 다운로드. If you put the two manuscripts side by side …
Voynich manuscript: the Mexican theory
A lot of people have recently asked me my opinion about the Voynich ‘New World’ theories, for example suggestions that it was written in Mexico in an Aztec language, because the plants look Mexican Regents.
Such theories tend to date the production of the manuscript to the 1500’s, and explain the carbon dating (1400’s) by suggesting, for example, that the vellum was kept unused for decades windows server 2012 r2 iso 한글 다운로드.
Personally I prefer not to engage in speculation about authorship and dates until we have more evidence about the script and language, and in any case my linguistic analysis suggests a strong Near Eastern/Asian linguistic dimension Download Currency Wars. However, recently …
Ricinus communis illustration
이현주 다운로드 See a full discussion of this plant and picture here 맥북 영화 다운로드.
Illumination, France, Robinet Testard (?), ca 1500. Illustration of Palma Christ/Ricinus for Matthaeus Platearius, Le Livre des simples médecines. Fr movie…. F. v. VI, 1. fol. 154 v, St. Petersburg, National Library
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