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geoffreycaveney · 18-09-2020, 05:09 PM

Here is an example of what my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. looks like for a short passage of actual Voynich ms text. The following text comprises the four lines at the top of ms page f67r1, transcribed to represent a modified form of Koen's verbose cipher as I interpreted and adjusted it:

[p]égo r'ey ePálgy hro ypéhey r'ey ePo ho

kál degy neté[y] ral hepegy béy téy tey téga

yjeh r hé[y] jehr o derhe al á r'ér kao ká

jego aetéy ral ál rhal jéy kál p'ey

I find the "floating" EVA [o]'s (not part of one of the [o+glyph] bigrams) interesting when represented as <h>'s, as the VCI transcription does.

I also must note that it is very likely that this transcription system, like others, is oversimplifying the characters transcribed as EVA "[sh]", and here transcribed as <r'>. I strongly suspect this actually represents multiple letters, depending on whether the loop on top is open, closed, or perhaps a third form.

I also note that EVA "[d]" may actually represent multiple forms and letters as well, so its transcription here as <k> (and of EVA [od] as <g>), may also be an oversimplification.

The VCI transcription system currently lacks such values as <c>, <č>, and <x> (the voiceless velar fricative phoneme), so they may well be among the other actual values of different forms of EVA [sh] and EVA [d].

Geoffrey