[Edit KG: this was originally a reply to this post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., but these posts have been split off by popular demand]

Davidsch,

The detail you describe as a fleur-de-lys is easy to read that way, and at first I thought so too, but such a reading is difficult to maintain because - as as with all emblemata - an interpretation has to be consistent with all other details, and in this case, the figure wears a garment of a cut which combines a neck-band of lighter colour with a side opening which runs close by the right armpit, and which apparently joins with knots, or perhaps frogged buttons (i.e. ones made by knotting cord into a button).  Those things are characteristic of Asian style, and the quarter which the figure occupies appears, again, to be the eastern, or perhaps the north-eastern.  (this assignment after investigating each of the other three in some detail).

Given the dates for the vellum and so forth, I concluded that the dress - including the head-wear - was a reference to the Mongols, (comparative images provided) and thus that the thing which strikes us as being like the European  'fleur-de-lys' wasn't meant for that, but for an emblem used on some coins of the Mongol period, within the same region to which traders and papal emissaries and others went from mainland Europe during the 'Mongol century'.

One commentator even speaks of it (the emblem being a calligraphic version of a tamgar) as looking "Like a graceful fleur-de-lys".

 In writing up this matter, I added an image of that coin and of the costume, including the peculiar head-band, so that readers would see that all the details in that little vignette are telling of time and place.


The coin I illustrated dates to 1252-3 AD.

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I recently saw some 1975 (?) works by Gennady Pavlishin, an illustrator from Eastern Russia. I find his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. interesting, I guess they are derived from older models. In particular, I find the symmetrical roots of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. somehow similar to the (simpler and more symmetric) decorative plants You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
Does anybody have links to actual ancient illustrations of plants from Russia? I guess that manuscript herbals must have existed in Russia as well. 
Other parallels for the roots of f2r?

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At present i take keen interest in the medieval history during period 1390-1440

In some postings there was some interesting information about countries, movements of people, persecutions, kings, deaths, inventions etc.
And the suggestion made to open a new thread on history or maps was a good one.

Here we could collect information that is specific for that period.

Let me start by mentioning:

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etc..

maps of the period:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.with maps (tuscany herbal thread) and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Yesterday and today i did research on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. because this is very interesting, for the:

* location inside Italy in the hills
* small community dated back to year 301

There are some thin similarities with the pictures in the VMS. The crenelations (rosette page), the castle on a rock (rosette page), crossbow-man already existed way back.

I thought i would find a special language or a reference of such, because it is typical for an old and small community.

However i did NOT find specific language references and 
i did NOT find ANY manuscript from medieval times that refers to this country.


I find that very striking and strange for a country that is so well organized and exists so long. 
Where are those manuscripts hidden?

The neural network of the human brain is the Jungle Book.

I must say that this manuscript contains the encoding of mental images in the brain, which, somehow, define some functions of the human body, let's call them binary options.
The neural network of the brain is divided into four sectors A, B, C, D.
The mind is vice versa, i.e., the account goes from left to right...

A sector – responsible for the functioning of the body.
Sector B - is the identity of the person.
Sector C, D – for a lifetime.

Figure 1 shows a money tree. The tree itself is the brain. Three branches – three branches of the neural network of the brain. Green leaves, the least significant bits. Brown leaves - about... the Numbers 3 and 1 determines the order of accounts bit. White flower is damaged areas of the brain, with which it is impossible to read information.

The encrypted text encoding which allows on the basis of the neural networks of the brain to create two virtual machines. I.e. to split myself.

2822; 2288; 8888; 8882; 3828; 8888; 8888; 2882

or

1011 0000 0110 1000 1111 0000 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0010 1011 0010 1110 1111 0100 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0010 1011 1000 1011 0100 0010

The elementary processor of a brain is a cube, where the dancing photons. The colour of the four faces of the cube determines its state. Only 16 colors. And each color in the binary system you can represent 4-bit code combination. Example: 1011 0110 or 0000 or...

Let's look at one more picture of the VOYNICH Manuscript. It depicts the flower of Kalanchoe. And pay attention to the root. We see three of the Appendix of mine. Looking at Fig. 3 it becomes clear that in Fig. 2 shows the coding that allows you to organize the bridge between two virtual machines obtained by dividing myself.

2288; 8288; 8828; 2882; 8888; 8882; 2882: 8228; 8828; 8888; 8288; 8228; 2888; 2882; 2222; 2228; 2828

or

1000 1111 0000 0010 0000 0110 0000 0010 0010 0111 1100 1011 0100 0010 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0010 1011 0010 1011 0100 0010 0010 0000 0010 0100 0010 0010 0111 1100 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0000 0110 0000 0010 0000 0010 0100 1011 0100 1000 1011 0100 0010 1000 1010 1110 1000 1011 0100 1011 0000 1100
 
On the last page of the VOYNICH manuscript (Fig. 4) we see the numbers 7484. This is a test. The number of 4-bit code combinations (CC) in the encoding should divided by 4 without a remainder. And the result of the division must be either 7 or 8 or 7+8=15.

So in the encoding Kalanchoe is the number of 4-bit СC (N4) is 60. And 60/4=15
Encoded money tree N4=28. And 28/4=7.
And check for odd parity. I.e. the number 1 in the encodings must be odd.
So in our example, quantity 1 = 85, in the money tree = 47.

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Надо сказать, что в данной рукописи содержатся кодировки ментальных образов головного мозга, которые, так или иначе, определяют некоторые функции человеческого организма, назовем их бинарными опциями.
Нейронная сеть головного мозга делится на четыре сектора A, B, С, D.
Ум – это ничка, т.е. счет идет слева направо…

Сектор A – отвечает за функционирование организма.
Сектор B – это личность человека.
Сектор C, D – за продолжительность жизни.

На рисунке 1 изображено денежное дерево. Само дерево – это головной мозг. Три ветки – три сектора нейронной сети головного мозга. Зеленые листочки, значащие биты. Коричневые листочки - ложные... Цифры 3 и 1 определяют порядок счета бит. Белый цветок – это поврежденные участки головного мозга, с которых нельзя считать информацию.

В тексте зашифрована кодировка, которая позволяет на базе нейронной сети головного мозга создать две виртуальные машины. Т.е. расколоть Я.

2822; 2288; 8888; 8882; 3828; 8888; 8888; 2882
или
1011 0000 0110 1000 1111 0000 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0010 1011 0010
1110 1111 0100 0010 0010 1011 1000 0010 0010 1011 1000 1011 0100 0010

Элементарным процессором головного мозга является куб, в котором пляшут фотоны. Цвет четырех граней этого куба определяет его состояние. Цветов всего 16. И каждый цвет в двоичной системе счисления можно представить 4-х битной кодовой комбинацией. Например: 1011 или 0000 или 0110…

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It becomes increasingly clear that the manuscript is most likely to have been made in Italy, as was the opinion of both Nick Pelling and Edith Sherwood before 2008.

Sherwood believed so because she thought then that the manuscript was by Leonard da Vinci; Pelling's opinion was drawn from his own research into an Italian architect nicknamed 'Filarete'.

Codicological evidence for this view has been less often addressed.

Recently, however, Alain Towaide has said that the binding itself (i.e. the style of stitching) is characteristically Italian, an important new insight. (on which point, see the publication by the Villa Mondragone, and a summary review by Rene written for Stephen Bax' website).

In this connection, I have noted again a comment published some time ago on ciphermysteries by Menno Krull Knul, who said he thought that an Italian manuscript in the library of the University of Vermont (Burlington) was 'convincingly like' the botanical section of Beinecke MS 408.

Bald assertions of this sort abound in Voynich studies, and finding the reason and evidence for an opinion is often very difficult.

So I've recently begun to write up a detailed comparison of the two manuscripts.  My conclusions are (for those who don't want to wade through the comparative evidence, reasoning and all that) that the similarities are primarily those of similar practices and materials in use in northern Italy during the fifteenth century.  As example, one page of the Vermont herbal, folded across the middle, differs not at all from the VMS vellum in one dimension and only 2.5mm to either side on the other.

The palette is comparable, though the Vms' is broader.  More telling is that both have had the pictures made before the text was added, and in *some* cases, the text of the Vermont 'Tuscany Herbal' also weaves the text through and around a central image.

However, the length in time between them - as much as four or five generations - suggests that it is the use of paper and membrane supplied by a constant source over that period which explains the dimensions, as well as the possibility that the 'Tuscany' herbal drew upon  the earlier Beinecke manuscript, or upon exemplars in common.  I conclude that the Vms is most likely to have been made c.1427-8 in the Veneto.

I think that, given the earlier ideas about where the manuscript was made (which is not the same thing as where the contained matter was first enunciated), Towaide's comment and Menno Krull's Knul's observation become important.   We may need to switch attention from 'central Europe' to northern Italy in our hunt for the text.

I should appreciate comments on the posts from members here.

Came across this compilation on pinterest today. Look at image #9 - the stars and the little face are very Voynichese.
But I can't find the source. Anyone have any idea?
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I wonder if the nymphs on top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be the constellations of Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda. They were all placed in the sky as a punishment: Cepheus as a fish, Cassiopeia chained to her throne with her arms spread, and Andromeda chained to a rock in the waves.

Later MSS depict them differently, but yesterday by coincidence I came across Revised Aratus Latinus, which depicts them in a way that reminded me of these nymphs. Especially the correspondence between the middle nymph and Cassiopeia is striking. The nymph to her right, which should be Andromeda, is also standing in wavy water.





DATE
809
LOCATION
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France → Nouv. acq. lat. 1614, fol. 86v-87r
TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT
Revised Aratus Latinus

A very interesting depiction can be seen here as well, in another version of this text:  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

What is interesting, is that this latter manuscript does something very Voynich-like: it gives the figures a small base to stand on, indicating their environment. Cetus and Andromeda get water, Cassiopeia gets a palace platform.

I'm not an expert in astrological matters so I wonder if it could be possible.

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Yes, i know this should probably have been posted at the water cooler,
but i already entered the text and attachments, when i realized that, 
so please don't get angry on me again, and perhaps you can help moving this to the correct category?

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I know there was a discussion on a page on many oooooo's after a 15 minute search i give up
and post this thread, perhaps it can be moved after we 've located that other posting ?

I wanted to share these images:

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Wanted to show these many oooo's in this ms.
Update: Yes Marco, thanks page 70r1. So the thread concerned is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.



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What is interesting about this text is that on the 4th line resembles two letters, as in the vms,
you see something that looks like yortalem or ajortlem, but there are very little words i can read.


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Here you can see letters in the picture have been used to show a=oriens, o=occidenz d=angulus ..?
This is used on the other pages as well.



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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 25
Parchment · 51 ff. · 23.5-25.5 x 16-17 cm · 13th-14th century
Composite manuscript (Astronomy)
Language: not specified
Manuscript Summary: This composite manuscript of content related to astronomy consists of three independently created parts with leaves of different sizes and varying layouts. They were produced by several scribes in the 13th and 14th centuries. The texts describe instruments for observing the sky and treat the planetary orbits, which are also represented in astronomical drawings. This composite manuscript belonged to the chained library of the Dominican Convent of Basel. (gam/flr)
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