The Voynich Ninja

The text only section in Q20 features 324 stars in the margins.
The breakdown per folio is the following - 1st number: total stars per folio - 2nd and 3rd numbers in parentheses: number of these stars  to which red paint has been applied (fully red stars/red center only):

103r: 19 (7/0)
103v: 14 (0/7)
104r: 13 (5/2)
104v: 13 (0/7)
105r: 10 (0/6)
105v: 10 (0/5)
106r: 16 (0/8)
106v: 14 (0/7)
107r: 15 (0/8)
107v: 15 (0/8)
108r: 16 (5/0)
108v: 16 (0/8)
109-110 missing
111r: 17 (0/9)
111v: 19 (0/10)
112r: 12 (0/6)
112v: 13 (0/7)
113r: 16 (0/8)
113v: 15 (0/8)
114r: 13 (0/7)
114v: 12 (0/6)
115r: 13 (0/7)
115v: 13 (0/7)
116r: 10 (0/5)


Total stars: 324
Total stars to which red paint has been applied: 163 (17/146)

Sure I agree

I agree about the 324 total, but I count 7 red stars in f114r, hence a total of 163 red stars.

Hi MarcoP,
are you sure you mean f114r? I did count 7 red stars there (this is just a copy/paste of the count I did in the Counting Things thread)... Did you mean another folio?

(27-10-2017, 07:34 PM)VViews Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hi MarcoP,
are you sure you mean f114r? I did count 7 red stars there (this is just a copy/paste of the count I did in the Counting Things thread)... Did you mean another folio?

Whoops, sorry!
104r

Thank you MarcoP, I'm editing the post to reflect your correction!

I remember we discussed my own count somewhere in the forum. Does it match? If yes, then you have my vote

Hi Anton,
I believe you are referring to this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. you made, opening a thread named "The "Recipe" Section"... and yes, our counts do indeed match!
It is also interesting to me that you note there that:

"I counted 324 stars in total in 23 Recipe section pages. However, 2 folios (=4 pages) are lost, so we must count for that. The mean star count per folio would be 324/23 = 14,09, so the estimation of the total count in the Recipe section would be 14,09*(23+4) = 380 stars."

Of course, that figure is hypothetical rather than something we can count and verify, but I wanted to highlight it here anyway.

Well, but was is meant by "red" stars? There are stars full-painted red and stars which have only a red circle in the centre. So, full-painted or both?

Hello Anton,
Good point, I'll edit my post to replace "red stars" with "stars to which red paint has been applied", and further add a distinction between the fully red ones and those which only have red in their center.

ETA:
Here is an interesting You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.  by Elmar Vogt, with his own page-by-page count of the stars in Q20.
Strangely, he counts one more star than Anton and I do on EACH page.
No disrespect to Elmar Vogt intended here, but I am certain he has miscounted: in his post, he develops some very interesting thoughts about the pattern of painted/unpainted stars, and shows the correct number of them, visually, using his "-xO" system. However, his totals for each page are incorrect.