Aldus Manutius Puns

As an edit: Following up on constructive criticism as to the structuring of this post, the following article is me seeking to use authoritative sources and citing sources, as opposed to personal experience alone, as a basis for my opinion and theory.

I'll preface by saying that, after doing self-research on the Voynich manucript, including going through many options presented online...I noted a lot of work by linguists / codebreakers, but a huge lack of input, and opinions, from professional artists and designers.

So, I'm here to give my take, from someone who has consulted directly with, professionals in the field. My mother was previously a commercial graphic designer herself; my paternal grandmother created several children's book drafts by hand; and I met twice with MinaLima (Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima), the design / artist team and company for the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films.

The MinaLima team has also created graphic props for films such as Sweeney Todd (2007), The Golden Compass (2007) and The Imitation Game (2014) and designed the bestselling books for Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, and Beauty and The Beast.

Why is MinaLima relevant to the Voynich manuscript? Well, for a few reasons:

• Both designers, and particularly, Miraphora Mina, specialized in hand-crafting, and hand-writing, hundreds upon hundreds of "fake" books and props for the Harry Potter (and other) films, as well as designing books in general. Example: Miraphora Mina painstakingly hand-labelled, designed, and wrote, the hundreds of Hogwarts letters seen in the first film; dozens of labels for Dumbledore's Pensieve memory containers; and Snape's handwriting in the Half-Blood Prince's book. Miraphora Mina's work is the closest I've ever seen, in the modern day, to the level of hand-crafting and artistic process involved on the Voynich manuscript.

• The design style of modern professional graphic and prop designers (i.e. MinaLima) closely resembles, if not is identical to, the creative process determined to have resulted in the Voynich manuscript (including my own grandmother's "hand-crafting" process for illustrated book drafts). For example, the design begins with the art (i.e. paintings, drawings), usually almost always done, and designed, by hand (and, in the modern era, scanned / copied to the computer for further printing and refining), and text is added later.

• The Mara

Im Laufe der Jahre sind Bücher wichtige Mittel zur Verbreitung von Wissen gewesen. Bücher wirken wie stille Freunde, mit denen wir uns auf alle möglichen Abenteuer einlassen können. Ob es sich um physische oder digitale Bücher handelt, sie sind ein unverzichtbarer Teil des Lebens, zumindest für mich.

Die Geschichte des Buches geht auf Jahrtausende zurück. Konkret begann sie in Mesopotamien, als beliebige Informationen mit Hilfe eines Schreibrohrs, einem primitiven Schreibgerät, auf schwere, nasse Tontafeln gepresst wurden. Anschließend wurden diese Tontafeln unter der Sonne getrocknet.

Im Alten Ägypten wurden große Rollen Papyrus verwendet, einem papierähnlichen Material, das aus den Fasern des Papyrusbaums hergestellt wurde. Bedauerlicherweise ist aufgrund der zerbrechlichen Beschaffenheit dieses Materials ein großer Teil der Literatur und anderer Dokumente aus dieser Zeit verloren gegangen.

Daraufhin wurde das aus Tierhaut hergestellte Pergament erfunden, dessen Verwendung dank seiner höheren Widerstandsfähigkeit schnell an Popularität gewann. Hinzu kam, dass es im Gegensatz zu Papyrus sowohl eine glattere Oberfläche als auch eine hellere Farbe hatte. Erst gegen Ende des Mittelalters wurde das Pergament durch Papier ersetzt.

Papier hat seinen Ursprung in China vor etwa 2100 Jahren. Anfangs wurde es durch das Zerkleinern von Pflanzen wie Bambus und Hanf hergestellt, bis sich schließlich Holzstoff als bevorzugte Quelle durchsetzte. Jahrhunderte später wurde Papier auch von chinesischen Gefangenen in der arabischen Welt produziert, was zum geistigen Aufschwung der Region beitrug. Dementsprechend wurde die Produktion aufrechterhalten und es entstanden verschiedene Werkstätten in wichtigen Städten wie Kairo und Damaskus. Nach Europa gelangte dieses Schreibmaterial jedoch erst im 11. Jahrhundert, als Folge des kulturellen Kontakts zwischen der christlichen und der islamischen Welt.

Schon vor der Erfindung des modernen Buchdrucks konnten Bücher mit einer Buchdrucktechnik, dem Holzschnitt, gefertigt werden. Diese Technik basiert auf dem Druck mit einer Holzplatte, die zuvor geschnitzt und eingefärbt wurde. Aus diesem Grund gilt das chinesische Diamant-Sutra nach Ansicht von Historikern als das älteste noch vorhandene Buch der Welt.

Im 15. Jahrhundert erfolgte eine Zäsur in der Geschichte des Buches, nämlich durch die Erfindung des Buchdrucks mit beweglichen Lettern durch Johaness Gutenberg, der eigentlich Gensfleisch zur Laden hieß. In diesem Vorläufer

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

They were cooked in Greece.

A play on words.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms