116v

[JoJo_Jost]

@ Stolfi 
Who says charms have to mean anything? They’re often strings of invocations of saints or angels, references to remedies—because people thought that alone would help—and magical words that can no longer be reconstructed. Here’s below a marginalia from an English book (B. L. Sloane 3160) that also contains some errors in the Latin words.

What’s particularly nice about this charm is: REX + AREX + RYMEX (this is essentially the same as “six marix morix vix” because the endings in “x”—see also “max pax brax”—are very typical of charms.)

The charm 116v invokes “maria,” specifically the most significant relic in the 15th century at Aachen Cathedral in Germany, which—according to the beliefs of the time—promised powerful healing simply through touch. It is Mary’s undergarment the one she is said to have worn at the birth of Jesus = mchiton.
“Alada” refers to hellebore (a remedy); “bas” means “better” (there is an effective form of hellebore and a less effective one). 
“Multos” is used for emphasis, meaning “many.”
A candle or wax (cere) is to be carried.
“N” stands for an invocation of Christ, or for the name of the person in question.
Then the typical magical words: six = six (also in German), marix morix vix (quickly).
“abia” can have many meanings—it could simply be a misspelled Latin word, as in the text from the English book, or “avia” (Christ’s grandmother, Anna), or the name “abia,” or something else.
Maria is invoked again.
Two Voynich words (probably referring to the illness or a remedy)—
“balsam” (palsen), possibly in the form of a paste (pbrey)—and then it says, “so nim es af mich,” which means something like, “so take it from me” (the illness).

(I have already provided the evidence and supporting arguments for all of these interpretations here in this thread)

Even if some of these interpretations may be incorrect—and I don’t mean to deny that by any means—they still illustrate the underlying principle. That’s what matters to me more than the individual interpretations, which we may never truly resolve 100 percent, for it’s a classic charm...