Coned towers, seen on the Voynich castle and elsewhere in the manuscript, are a feature of French, not Italian, architecture. Meanwhile, scholars have discovered that sources for the astrology section come from northeastern France, not Italy. Years ago, someone noticed that the castle defenses resembled defenses seen in northern Italy, but no further support for composition in northern Italy has come forth. With such strong evidence for a tropical climate, why does Wikipedia think that the Voynich manuscript was composed in northern Italy which is hardly tropical? On folio 82r, we see one of the girls wrapped in a blanket, peacefully asleep in her tree hut under the stars. Do they also portray the manuscript's authors?
You say they drew the marsh deer to indicate that this was the animal used for parchment.
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Another important step in making parchment was the frequent washing of the hide, requiring clean rain water, not the dirty green water of the swamps.Ĭonclusion: These gals knew how to make parchment. The credente is standing in blue, not green, water. The credente is dreaming about making a belt and short skirt from scraped animal hide.ĥ. They used this instrument to scrape away animal fur from the furry side of the hide, a necessary step in the making of parchment.Ĥ. This was the standard tool of medieval parchment makers. In her right hand, the credente is holding a curved blade with handles on each end. Knowledge is being passed from the perfecta to the credente.ģ. The perfecta is not poking at the credente's eye but rather pointing to her brain. Also note that her left arm is misplaced, too far down from the shoulder.Ģ. This is not the ceremony of consolamentum as the perfecta's right hand is placed behind her back. On folio 76v, we see an indication that the girls were not shy about skinning animals:ġ. In medieval times, the range of the American bison extended well into Mexico. To clarify: our latest theory maintains that the Cathars wrote astrological and text pages in Europe in the 13th century, that they took those pages with them when they migrated to America later in the 13th century, that they then wrote more pages (mainly on botanical themes) in the Americas on deer skin, and that, in the early 15th century, converts to their religion copied everything on to bison skin, which is today the VMS located in the Beinecke Library at Yale.
Of course, if they ate deer, it would become easy to explain how they managed to accumulate hides to make parchment. The Cathar perfecti were vegetarians, which makes me reluctant to suggest that they hunted deer for food, but depictions of the consolamentum ceremony imply that some of them had to be credentes, who may have been allowed to eat meat. Note also, in both cases, that the ears are pointing up and back from the back of the head (deer ears), unlike horses, mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, cows, or dogs, all which have ears pointing straight up, forward, sideways or down. Take special note of black coloring of the lower legs (a feature not seen on European deer) and compare with the Voynich drawing where you will notice black coloring on the lower legs.
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