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Why the month names aren't Voynichese?
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Am preferring c2), Months' names are not belonging to the original:

- the ink looks not brown or ("retracers"-)black, but anthracite like the ink of page numbers
- as remarked, writings touch or cover the drawings and appear cramped into it, which nearly never happens in the original VMS
- all of it (ink, letters, cursive writing, language) is different to VMS and made (much) later
- wording points to French (without saying the VMS was ever in France, produced there, or any author being french) and more close to 16th than 15th century -- could have been some researcher, we know there was some added writing from them

I would give nothing on some "anonymous paleographer" who tells this is 15th ct french (the last 6 anonymous botanists which approved that there are sunflowers in VMS were right with it...?):
the first attempt to standardize french spelling and grammar was not before ~1660AD, they came out with the first dictionary around 1694.
Before, everybody wrote just as he liked; and "the months" seem to be closer to 1580AD than to 1480...
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RE: Why the month names aren't Voynichese? - by Stefan Wirtz_2 - 26-01-2026, 01:03 PM

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