f17r multispectral images

[Jorge_Stolfi]

"The manuscript ends – and likely always ended – with the originally-blank page 116v. Early in the manuscript’s history, someone recorded a pseudo-Germanic inscription at the top of that page. The inscription is faded and damaged, and the transcription below is not at all certain:

pox leber rinon rutpfer
+ anchiton oladabas + miltos + te + c[  ]  cere + portas + m +
six + marix + morix + vix + ahia + ma+ria +
<oror sheey> palsch ubren so nim gas mich

Lisa, I advise you to refrain from providing any theory about those "marginalia".  Whatever you write is very likely to be quite wrong.  It would be safer to give just an objective description of what can be seen, without committing to any interpretation, reading, or purpose.  Something like:

• "On the to right corner of page f116v, in a small area beyond a tear and a hole of the vellum, there is a drawing of a "nymph" and of other items that have not been identified yet.   Other than that, there are four lines of extremely damaged writing, spanning the top of the page.  The last line starts with two common Voynichese words, aror Sheey. Of the other signs in those four lines, most resemble Latin letters, and some resemble Voynichese glyphs, but both deformed to a greater or lesser extent. While some of the Latin letters seem to make up words (in some unidentified Germanic dialect), the readings are generally strained. There are also about ten crosses between and above the words.  To date no one has found a plausible coherent parsing of any significant portion of those lines into meaningful text."
  

All the best, --stolfi