Thanks Marco,
Johannes Albus presented a slightly different translation at the event, which he was going to publish, but this did not happen. I lost contact with him, and don't have a final version.
While I am not so confident anymore about large parts of his reading, what remains is an increased belief that this was not written by a later owner, but by the author/scribe himself.
It is important to realise that the contents of You are not allowed to view links.
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- the top line
- the three following lines
- the illustrations.
To understand whether this is from the MS author or someone else entirely, one needs to understand whether they all belong together. There are several pros and cons.
The three lines are inside the normal text frame of the MS pages so should not be called marginal, but the other two items are marginal in that sense.
The top line looks like a heading or title, but the MS itself does not seem to have any such headings.
The three lines have been compared to pen trials or notes from a scribe who has just completed his work, and adds some expression of his feeling (which may take a wild variety of forms). There are plenty of interesting examples. The fact that it has two Voynich words integrated in it suggests that it is from the original author/scribe, but this depends on whether the writing is really the same hand as the main text.
Given that there is (apparently - I believe so) a goat liver in the heading, goat milk in the three lines, and a marginal goat drawing, the suggestion is strong that they belong together.
Given that the goat looks similar to the Aries drawings, and the declining figure also has similarity with other human drawings, the suggestion is also strong that they are from the original draughtsman. Also here, a more detailed comparison should be made.
As regards the 'recipe', billy goat liver was indicated already by Galen and Dioscurides, relying on earlier sources (Herophilus), to improve night vision, apparently because the night vision of goats is very good. As it turned out, it has a high dosis of Vitamin A which actually should help.
The two-line 'charm' may or may not be part of the treatment.... Nice examples are given by Ellie and JKP:
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