06-01-2025, 12:23 AM
(05-01-2025, 06:52 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Isn't it codicalogically likely that the two missing months were removed later though? We know that many folios of the MS are missing.
(Excitingly, this would mean that there could be a Voynich aquarius in some archive).
The question about the calendar is really why it starts with March.
Or why the whatever-it-is starts with Pisces.
We also know that there are plenty of zodiac cycles in other manuscripts that are incomplete.
It is even entirely possible to have an incomplete cycle, without missing pages, in case the cycle was copied from an incomplete original.
The start with Pisces is not so easy to explain, as it is not the result of 'something missing'. I agree that this is the more interesting point.
The number of possible explanations of this is quite wide and remains speculation.
The first level of speculation should be: is this intentional or not?
Here, I think we are on safe grounds, as there are several progressions in the cycle that make this likely.
With respect to the missing end, not only is a folio missing after the last sign, this folio (74) was cut out of the bound book.
There definitely was something there. There are still cut marks on f75.


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