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Are marginalia clues?
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(06-07-2026, 06:12 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(05-07-2026, 01:55 PM)ololololo wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.With the exception of the inscriptions in the Zodiac, I believe it is possible that the marginalia on f17r, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (specifically "der musdel"), and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. were added by someone who understood the manuscript. ... What do you think?

As for f116v, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: the original text on that page was all in Voynichese, then a water spill erased everything except the aror Sheey, and the "michiton" text is a pathetic attempt at reconstructing the lost text by someone who did not even know the alphabet. 

My guess is that the same explanation holds for the non-Voynichese writing at the top of f17r, although the extent, date, and consequences of the water stain there are much less certain.  

I have no theory yet for the non-Vonichese writing at the bottom of f66r.

All the best, --stolfi
In fact, it doesn't seem very logical for two reasons:
1). It is unclear why the author had to change the letters during the "reconstruction". If you had a book in conventional Greek, but the inscription on the last page was erased, you wouldn't try to reconstruct the erased text by changing Greek letters to Latin letters, would you? As for the "clumsy cleaner", he hardly had any problems with development, and he would have noticed that the result was some kind of nonsense. 
2). For some reason, the same letter rearrangement did not occur on the f103r. Apparently, the "ketchup" stain was left by a more decent person Big Grin
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Messages In This Thread
Are marginalia clues? - by ololololo - 05-07-2026, 01:55 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by Jorge_Stolfi - 06-07-2026, 06:12 AM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by ErinaBee - 06-07-2026, 01:56 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by ololololo - 06-07-2026, 02:55 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by Jorge_Stolfi - 06-07-2026, 05:01 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by ololololo - 06-07-2026, 08:33 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by ololololo - 06-07-2026, 03:02 PM
RE: Are marginalia clues? - by Aga Tentakulus - 06-07-2026, 06:28 AM

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