It's a keycap set called MW Voynich that I spotted on Aliexpress. There's Voynichese or bililingual.
I love the plants and other art on the modifier set. This is a keycap set that's modular. Make sure
you are ordering all the caps that you need. Some people like tiny keyboards. I'm a keyboard person.
I was thinking that I couldn't use these on my fancy keyboards, but I could get a cheap keyboard for
this and hang it on the wall as art.
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Apparently this was designed by a hobbyist and was originally a group-buy to get the cost down.

I've been toying with ways to "depaint" the manuscript. The most recent work I can find is Landini's colour deconvolution from back in the early 2000s. I wanted to check if anyone knew of newer developments? Also, is there a significant set of "depainted" images anywhere? I can only find fragments of Landini's image results, and some cruder image work done by Pelling (focused on recovering painted-over text).

Thanks!
Eric

I consider the astrological part of the book the most important, because beside the plants (which are hardly identifiable) our stars and constellations do not change, and therefore it is the only part of VMS that can be connected to our real world.

Few months back I got myself to study a bit, and found that Chinese have a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. system. These Mansions reflect the movement of the moon in a lunar month (28 days) where each day corresponds with a constellation.

The Chinese lunar calendar is separated into quadrants - Dragon(East), Turtle/Snake(North), Tiger(West) and Bird(East). The south is usually on top.
Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Indians and Arabs utilise similar concept.

The 28-Mansions System lunar appears to be present on page f68r3. I saw there is an agreement that f68r3 features the moon in the middle.
   

What's more interesting is this rendition of the Mansion System from time of Yuan dynasty 1271-1368. Marco Polo served Yuan dynasty around 1280.
   

What's important, all lunar mansion systems - be it Arabic, Chinese or Indian - do include Pleiades as one of the mansions. The symbol in Chinese is "昴" is 16th lunar mansion, under Tiger(west).

In this image, I located 昴 on the right and adjusted it to align with the European north-up perspective. Conveniently, the Pleiades constellation in the VMS corresponds to the chart.

   

edit: changed title from "Chinese Astrology present in VMS" to "Eastern Astrology present in VMS"

(25-11-2024, 11:00 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Mike Plet, are you reading anything we say? If so, please give a sign.

Simple question: Has the text ever been examined by a professional graphologist?

If so, are there any reports or conclusions?

The only info I found is that an amateur graphologist tried to decipher it in the 1600s.

I believe that the lower left rosette on the 9-folio foldout page 
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is a depiction of God's creation of the "heaven[s] and the earth".
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Genesis 1
King James Version

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

This volvelle is shown in Hebrew Cosmology:
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Notice the column shapes as drawn in the white areas separated by the oceans and seas:
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God's commands from above heaven emanate from the cloud burst located to the upper right of the volvelle:
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At the lower left corner of the volvelle is a depiction of the clock which started at the "beginning of time":
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The canopy in the middle of the volvelle includes the first set of stars seen in the universe:
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Perhaps the "words" listed here depict the Days of Creation including the Sabbath?
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So I did some frequency analysis of the text. I'm still processing the most of it, but I wanted to share some stats I got. It's possible some of these data have been posted or done before by someone else, but I couldn't find it.

The data might not be 100% precise due to transcription errors. I used transcription from Landini-Stolfi. I have limited dataset of old Latin and English (only around 5000 words)

Total letters (excluding spaces): 194 771
Total words: 37 852

My entropy calculations of text based on words:
Voynich - 10.5957 bits
English - 7.9068 bits
Old Latin - 9.8516 bits

My entropy calculations of text based on letters:
Voynich - 3.8689 bits
English - 4.1317 bits
Old Latin - 4.0166 bits

• Vast majority of words are unique = 6126 (70,54%) of words appears only once. 941 (10,84%) appear twice, and 382 (4,40%) thrice. That's 85% of words that are unique. These unique words make up 24,18% of the entire text. Truly unique words (they appear once) make up 16,18% of the entire text.
  
• The word that appears the most (as a standalone) is "daiin" - 820 times (2,17%) Here are some data regarding "daiin":
  

• The second word that appears the most (as a standalone) is "ol" - 504 times (1,33%) - but it appears over 5000 times as a part of a word.
  

• The word frequency in Voynichese (light blue), 15th Century Latin (Yellow), Modern English (dark blue/purple). I believe we already knew that it resembles Zipfs Law, but I'll show it anyway. Note: I don't have sufficient data to feed my algorithm regarding other languages, that's why English and Latin are so low. My Voynich algorithm worked with 37852 words, English and Latin with around 5000 words. I'd be happy if someone provided me with some old relevant texts that I could feed into the algorithm. Let me know!
  

Please, if you have some digitalized transcripts of original 15th century texts  or similar (any language), share them with me. 

I am super confident that I am well on my way.
This is an extract of my Voynich translation of the first lines: 

1. Recurring themes: movement, transformation, divine knowledge
   
2. Structural patterns: progression through stages/chambers
   
3. Emphasis on dualities: earthly/divine realms
   
4. Circular narrative: begins with examination, ends with divine truth
   

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The latest episode of the "This is Love" podcast is devoted to the VMS, featuring myself, Claire Bowern, Cary Rapaport, and Koen Gheuens:
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