The Voynich Ninja

(24-07-2026, 04:55 PM)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ oshfdk If you're talking about cramped letters, then what's this?

I'm not sure I understand the logic of your question. I'm saying "gasmich" has no signs of cramped letters so there was no clear reason so squeeze a ligature to make it look like a single letter. Your reply is pointing to a different line which has some very messy word, which indeed looks messy, and not at all neat like gasmich. I don't really understand your point here?

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I’ll take it a step further.
Red is a form of Latin.
Blue is a form of German. Probably Bavarian.
Green is VM.
I can understand the leap from red to blue.
But the idea that a third language (green) should pop up in the red-to-blue leap is, to me, nonsense.
Either VM is German or Latin.
For me, it’s Latin; for JoJo_Jost, it’s Bavarian.

Ich gehe noch weiter.
Rot ist eine Form von Latein.
Blau ist eine Form von Deutsch. Wahrscheinlich bairisch.
Grün ist VM.
Der Sprung von Rot zu Blau kann ich nachvollziehen.
Aber das im Sprung Rot-Blau noch eine dritte Sprache (Grün) auftauchen soll, ist für mich blödsinn.
Entweder ist das VM deutsch oder latein.
Für mich ist es Latein,  für JoJo_Jost ist es bairisch.

This thread was supposed to be a debate about the image shown in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. on another thread, but perhaps some here have not seen it.  Forgive me for reposting it:

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Basically (A) is the edge of the pooled water, and (B) would be the lower limit of the area where the spill was wiped off.

(22-06-2026, 09:17 PM)oshfdk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We have MSIs of f116v, from them personally to me it's absolutely clear that no massive retracing happened on this page whatsoever. There is only one very clear layer of text and no clear outline of any other text is visible anywhere (if we don't count the see-through from the recto of the same folio).

To my eyes there are two very clear layers of text, neither of them the original (Rt0) Voynichese text.  Check the "s" of "six", for example.  Which means that the restoration pass of the "Massive Retracing" theory (Rt1) happened after the spill and after this specific attempt at restoring the wiped-out text (RtS).  But let's leave this discussion for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Here let me address the (implied?) claim that no Voynichese (Rt0) layer is seen under the "Germolatinish" script (RtS, whether there is Rt1 not).  

The fact that the MSI images were taken with somewhat narrow-band light does not necessarily mean that vestiges of erased ink would be more visible in them than with the naked eye.  Thus any vestige of the Rt0 Voynichese layer that we could see here was probably seen also seen and traced over by the RtS Restorer, usually with the assumption that it was a Latin letter.

But in fact there are a couple o bits of faint traces that seem to be explained only as remains of the Voynichese layer.  Like the diagonal strokes on the "+" signs:

(22-07-2026, 08:56 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By the way, two of the crosses (after "multod" and after "cere") are closed at the northwest quadrant by a diagonal line, so that they look more like a "4".  But crosses are normally drawn with a vertical down stroke and a left to right horizontal stroke.  If the quill is not completely lifted off the vellum between the two traces, the result would be a diagonal line closing off the southwest or northeast quadrant, depending on which stroke is drawn first.  The diagonal line at the northwest suggests that what the Restorer saw there was a "4", not just a cross.  Like a partially erased q...

And then there are the garbled unreadable glyphs, like the one before the "cere" and the "paldcn" -- which I can only explain as the Restorer himself being unable to guess which "Latin letters" those smudges could have been. 

By the way, I noticed that the "c" of "paldcn" has a short plume, which would make it a Voynichese s There is a stain right over it, but I think it is still quite clear, and in ink -- not a vellum defect.

All the best, --stolfi

(24-07-2026, 08:04 PM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.But in fact there are a couple o bits of faint traces that seem to be explained only as remains of the Voynichese layer.  Like the diagonal strokes on the "+" signs

These diagonal strokes and serifs are not exceptional and certainly don't need an imaginary Voynichese layer to explain them. There are many similar examples in this thread: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Some of them:

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(24-07-2026, 05:09 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It’s not just the ‘g’, after all.
‘Gas’ becomes ‘Ziege’, and ‘mich’ becomes ‘milch’ – and that’s even written as two separate words. The ‘o’ isn’t taken into account; it’s even dismissed as nonsense. [..]
If it’s now a ‘tz / ez’ – where you can even make out a ‘z’ – the whole sentence makes sense.

This is just replacing one fantasy with another.
„gaismich“ is a very rare discovery and not surely understood; but „gaismich“ is not „gas mich“.

There is no hint that the „g“ of „gas“ (someone even turned up with „gaf“ here) is anything else than a „g“; the chance of being something like „ez“ is very low, compared with all other mentioned (and recognized) „e“s in the lines before.

(24-07-2026, 05:09 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Blue is a form of German [..]
Either VM is German or Latin.

Apart from the strange „pal8cn“ is the next word „pbren“ nothing of any version of German at all. „pb..“ just doesn‘t work. So the understanding of these letters is nothing to be sure about.

f 116 is surely no typical part of the whole VMS — to say, VMS is either German or Latin, is more than daring.

I wanted to add this because it seems no one wants to see it. You can now clearly see that the Gothic “z” blue may indeed have merged with the “e” (red from the same marginal note).

Maybe I’ll go ahead and look for the “ez” in some hastily written handwriting after all.

As I said, it’s one of the theories with the fewest assumptions that generate a clear sentence that fits perfectly with a charm. 
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(24-07-2026, 11:42 PM)Stefan Wirtz_2 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
f 116 is surely no typical part of the whole VMS — to say, VMS is either German or Latin, is more than daring.

Apart from the strange „pal8cn“ is the next word „pbren“ nothing of any version of German at all

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Where do you see a ‘p’?
Has it never occurred to you that ink smudged by moisture and wiped away with a cloth leaves exactly these marks?
Now it’s a ‘u’ or a ‘v’, so the words are German too.

Wo siehst Du ein "p"?
Ist Dir noch nie in den Sinn gekommen, dass durch Feuchtigkeit angelöste Tinte und das abwischen mit einem Lappen genau diese Spuren hinterlässt.
Jetzt ist es ein "u" oder "v", und somit sind die Wörter auch deutsch.

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If you zoom in closely, you can make out a ‘z’.
It says ‘gas’ and not ‘gais’. ‘Gais’ is a goat and ‘gas’ is a goose.
It also says ‘mich’ and not ‘milch’, and what isn’t there at all is ‘Gaismilch’.

That doesn't change the fact that we don't know what a goosemich is.

(26-07-2026, 07:16 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That doesn't change the fact that we don't know what a goosemich is.

If it’s a ‘tz’ or an ‘ez’, then there’s no need to know. It’s more likely that there’s no such thing.

You can see the “p” in the MSI images and they point in different directions, so they CANNOT be traces of smudging.

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