f116v is a decryption attempt?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

One of the useful conclusions of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. connection with f104r.28 is the data about the recipe section [Starred Parags section, SPS], specifically that various spells and similar items can be collected there, in addition to recipes.

If one rejects the "SPS = SBJ" claim and its evidence, then there is no clue about the contents of the SPS.  It could be recipes, psalms, daily weather predictions, the Catholic You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with cribs for the sermon of the day, a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.,  The Poor Richard's Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grand-Grandpa's Almanac, a copy of 365 Things To Do In Zero Gravity that fell from a passing UFO, a list of 365 remedies and their indications, etc..  Or even a list of handy spells and curses for all occasions.

The occurrence of aror Sheey on f104r.28 is certainly noteworthy and does suggest some shared theme between those twop pages.  However, in order to conclude that the parag of f104r.28 is a charm, one must also reject the claim that the Big Wipe (or Big Spill) theory for f116v: that the original text, all in Voynichese, was accidentally wiped out (except for those two words) and replaced by a nonsensical "recostruction" with pseudo-Latin and pseudo-German words, including that "charm".  One must instead assume that the whole text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is meaningful in some language, and was written at the same time as the rest of the book.

In particular, it can be deduced that spells are marked with a (fully?) red star.  Since the stars often alternate, we can assume that each recipe has its own spell. Based on this logic, f104r.29 could be a recipe that uses goat's milk, for example.

This suggestion has additional problems.  

• The pseudo-Latin text of the charm on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is embeded in the pseudo-German text, not a separate parag. 
  
• There are no stars on f116v, just as there are no stars on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. after line 30 or so.  
  
• The stars in most SPS pages have alternate colors, but there are a few hiccups.  While those hiccups may have other explanations, one possibility is that the colors are meaningless decoration.  (Mathematically speaking, an alternating sequence of 0s and 1s of any length contains at most one bit of information.)
  
• In fact, there is reason to suspect that the color spots in those stars, like the color paints elsewhere in the book, were applied long after the book left its Author.
  

If one accepts the Big Wipe theory for the "Michitonese" text of f116v, then a more likely theory for the original Voynichese text is that it was a continuation of the text on page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. -- apparently a "postamble" or epilog for the SPS.

All the best, --stolfi