Further thoughts on alternative transliterations of the Voynich manuscript (taking Glen Claston's v101 as a starting point).

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I have been studying the images off and on for a couple of years now and I have come up with some ideas. I think it is a religious medical manual; from conception to the afterlife. I think the stars are souls. I think the Cosmology Section that starts at Image # 121 is a representation of Heaven for souls before they are born.

I think it has to do with the Zodiac and the time of conception and/or birth. I think it is using both the phase of the Moon as well as the time of the year by the Sun. I think all those stars are souls that are waiting to be born.

Starting with Image # 135 it is talking about conception and pregnancy and about how the soul enters the mother's body.

In the upper right of Image # 138 is a man casting out seeds – a symbol of fertility.

Go to Ensoulment, Ancient_Greeks on Wikipedia and you will see the steps the soul goes through. Image # 138 shows these steps; vegetable, then animal and only later becoming human. The nymph images on the left are showing these steps. The top nymph is holding a plant. The next a bird. The third transforms into human.

Image # 144 is a warning that pregnancy is only for within holy marriage. The top nymph is holding a cross. The next is holding a wedding ring. The demons at the bottom are a warning that a man should not waste his seed outside of procreation in marriage.

Image # 149 shows the star-soul leaving Heaven and entering the mother's body. Again a nymph at the bottom is holding a wedding ring.

I think starting at Image # 156 shows the path from birth, through life (the Sun) and then to death (the Moon) and then to the afterlife.

I think Image # 158 is a map of the levels of Heaven.

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Continued studies of Voynichese, as well as new posts on some imagery, including the latest on the rings of the nymphs:

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This post tackles the phenomenon of the looping gallows found in places in the text. 

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Here are some further thoughts on Zattera's "slot alphabet" and its corollary hypothesis: that in nearly every Voynich "word", the glyphs were re-ordered according to some prescribed sequence. 

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Further updates at my blog in recent days. Explorations of Voynichese using a 'paradigm' approach. By extension, the text as cosmological.

In the most recent You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. I stop to consider the question of whether the language can be spoken? 

"Any account of the Voynich language as a mechanically generated artifact must also explain all aspects of its naturalness."

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Hello everyone, 

I would like to share my finding about voynich manuscript. I have deciphered and translated few pages of Voynich manuscript. Based on my translation of first page of Voynich manuscript, I have found the author of Voynich manuscript. He was Giovanni Aurispa. The first page explained about  Giovanni Aurispa's life and events during his time. 
Especially second and third paragraphs, explained about his life in 1421 untill 1423. When he was ordered by papal court to accompanied Gianfrancesco Gonzaga of Mantua to Constantinople as translator. Then he stayed there for two years as a secretary because the son of the Byzantine's emperor fond of him. In 1423 he accompanied John VIII Palaiologos to Rome and Venice in order to get help on man power and resources, because of the black death plague and war against Ottoman. 
Fourth paragraph explained about the birth of Florence's catasto in 1427, where Giovanni Aurispa lived from 1425 untill 1427 in Florence. I have attached my ciphers and translation of the first page of Voynich manuscript. 

Notes : the language is latin language
              there are ciphers I have not included in the ciphers picture, they are
              Cl in the word clues
              Gn in the word magnas
              Nd in the word mundi    

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New work at my blog. A series of new posts but the summary is here:

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My work is based to some extent on Brian Cham's curve and line system (along with a bit of Patrick Feaster's 'loops'.)

Here I try to rethink and extend the curve and line system to a bigger but ultimately simpler system at the heart of which is the pattern we see in the T/O symbols.

The studies leading to this proposal can be followed in the recent posts.

Further thoughts on a strategy for the search for meaning in the Voynich manuscript.

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