Rene Zandbergen has just posted about this ms in another thread.

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According to the description, the ms was written in Germany in the second half of the 14th Century. 
The ms has several interesting aspects. For instance:

• the colors are particularly varied (usually, not much nature-like)
  
• several scenes represent castles with swallowtail merlons (are these common in German manuscripts?)
  
• many plants feature zoomorphic or anthropomorphic elements (more than in other copies of Pseudo-Apuleius, I think)
  
• some of the roots seem comparable with the hollow or "flat-top" roots in the VMS
  

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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is a medical miscellany written in England at the end of the 13th century.

Several images can be paralleled with Voynich illustrations, in particular in the so-called “balneological” section.

A few examples:

• General page layout (K)
  
• Patients being cured (B,C)
  
• Internal organs represented as tubes (images I, J, K)
  
• Naked people inside containers – actually fetuses in the womb (images G, L)
  
• A complex, unfinished, astrological diagram (img H)
  

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It occurred to me that there is something strange with the bottom margin in the VMS.

Imagery can be as close to the bottom edge of a folio as possible. But this is not the case with the text.

In contrast to imagery, in the overwhelming majority of folios the bottom margin is quite notable - the text abrupts well before the edge is near. One could argue that this was done to preserve the text from the potential wear of the folios' edges. But this is not the case with the top margin. There are many folios where the text is very close to the upper edge of the folio. But I found only one folio - that is f99r, - where the text comes reasonably close to the bottom edge. (Folio 86 may be also mentioned, but here it is the upper side of the text block that faces the bottom edge of the folio - since the text is reversed upside down.)

So, no matter what's the section, no matter whether there are images or the page is text-only, the text does not reach the bottom edge.

The question is: why?

This is a recent (2016) article in the "pre-print" status, available here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

The text is in Russian.

Abstract (original orthography & grammar are preserved):

Quote:The statistical properties of letters frequencies in European literature texts are investigated. The determination of logarithmic dependence of letters sequence for one-language and two-language texts are examined. The pare of languages is suggested for Voynich Manuscript. The internal structure of Manuscript is considered. The spectral portraits of two-letters distribution are constructed.

O_t_o_l is telling us something that’s hard for the camp of the voynichese people who believe the VMS text is meaningful.  The other option is that labels are not labels which I think is incorrect.  I think the Author made mistakes in trying to make a gibberish text meaningful when introducing labels.  The four o_t_o_l labels I submit here simply cannot convey the same meaning unless some other system is in place where o_t_o_l can have several meanings.  Yet a word usually translates to a 1-1 meaning.  There are 85 instances of o_t_o_l in the VMS, but to have it relate to a star, plant, fire and pipes makes a strong case for mischief with what the Author intended.
 
I have offered up an option for this were a different system could relate vords to different vords through numbers, but this cipher cannot be replicated by different people.

This is not my favourite topic, and I only start a new thread because I don't want to be off-topic in another one.

Only just a few days ago I wrote in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.  :

Quote:It's a real pity that this spectre of 'who said what first' is haunting so many discussions.

It is obviously to be expected that if many dozens of people are looking at the same thing, many people will come to the same conclusions completely independently.

Source: boerhave museum.

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Test
Nepen (neben) thess (diese) herba cui9 (cuium) me//
mi nit  plini9 apud Romeru_
penelope hui9 succo addito
porulie / discutit tristicria
ro_uiuij. unde illud odissex/r /
unde bibebat. Ire. Nepe_thess.
o_mnisqp obliuia cure/ Na_
ha_r uim habere tradu2
per va_/ Gu_t 4~ puta_t et_
buglossam/ de qua Gaken9
stribit. qp vino i_missa
Petirie causa sit.

The New York Review of Books

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The Voynich Manuscript
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edited by Raymond Clemens, with an introduction by Deborah Harkness
Beinecke Library/ Yale University Press, 304 pp., $50.00

Ah, these scribbles are an interesting thing. I don't support the idea of anything being encoded there, but I mean another thing. It is best seen if you rotate the pic provided by coded (stellar) by 180 degrees. You will then see that these scribbles repeat the capital letter "M" a number of times (three or four times, if I remember correctly) inscribed in the same ornate way (I mean the way that the pen goes). Given this ornate way repeating several times, I wonder if this can be a signature (or part of signature) of the scribe. This could then be a valuable clue.

I've also noted a color annotation You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (as well as other kinds of text in the leaves that are hard to discern).


I don't know whether René mentioned it earlier (it's something I noticed independently) but if it is a color annotation, it says something about the language of the person doing the annotations or whoever was tasked with the painting.

"G" is green in quite a few languages (green, grün, grön, grønn, grøn, groen, gjelbër, grien, grænt, glas, greng, grin) but most of them are western European, more specifically the germanic languages rather than romance languages (which are usually "v"), eastern European languages are usually "z", and African and Asian languages vary, but are not usually "g".

If the label in the root is intended as "rot" (which seems probable but is not completely certain), then it confirms that the annotations are germanic.