There are a, b, c letters at the pages f68r1, f68r2, f68r3 in left top corners of the pages:
Was there any discussion here who could write them?
Are they written with pencil? It would suggest some modern researcher
(10-12-2025, 09:33 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There are a, b, c letters at the pages f68r1, f68r2, f68r3 in left top corners of the pages:
Was there any discussion here who could write them?
Are they written with pencil? It would suggest some modern researcher
I have no idea what is happening with them, but it inspired me to look around, and two more letters (a/b) are also noted on f70r, in the same relative spot. The second foldout of You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. is not noted. The other foldouts look unmarked to me, and the two b we have look very different to my untrained eye.
This is one of the many examples in the Voynich MS where we cannot answer a question, not because we cannot find an explanation, but we can find numerous explanations and we have no way to decide which one is correct.
A couple of things about this:
- they look like pencil, but this cannot be decided from the scans. A visual inspection would give more certainty.
- undoubtedly, these are from a (much) later owner
So when would these have been added?
I think that this could be anywhere from Kircher to Kraus.
This is of course where the speculation comes in.
There are a lot of pencilled notes (mostly numbers) on the Kircher correspondence. These were most probably added by later Jesuits.
Voynich is on record to have made notes on his manuscripts. Whether the handwriting could be his is very hard to say due to the tiny sample of individual characters. They do not look to me to be by Anne Nill or ELV.
Kraus and Lehmann-Haupt both pencilled on the inside cover.
Plenty of candidates...