(26-08-2018, 11:14 AM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. linked by Koen in the first post, one can access the index of the book and read a few pages from each chapter (at least, the preview is accessible from the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.).
The vast majority of this work is about Voynich-imagery only: in line with the subjective fluff one usually finds on Voynich blogs. From the abstract of the Zodiac chapter:

Quote:Most significant is the fact that some of the traditional signs are replaced with animals indigenous to Mexico. Thus, the fish in Pisces resembles an alligator gar, the crab in Cancer is represented by Mexican crayfish, the lion in Leo is replaced by an ocelot, and the scorpion in Scorpio is replaced by a jaguarundi (similar to cat-like images found in northern European zodiacs). The substitution of indigenous animals in the traditional zodiac signs provides evidence that the Voynich Codex is a Mesoamerican work.

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• Crayfish are everywhere. There's nothing in the VMS to indicate a specific species of crayfish. In fact the VMS crayfish is anatomically incorrect (legs coming out of the tail).
  
• Spotted cats are everywhere (many of them Old World).
  
• Jaguarundi???? Are they serious!!!!! VMS Scorpius does NOT resemble a cat, particularly that cat.
  

(26-08-2018, 10:07 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sorry Rene, I was being facetious.

• EVA-s and EVA-r are commonly found in Latin script. They are abbreviations that stand alone or occur within words. There is nothing rare or unique about them.
  
• EVA-d is also found in Latin script. It is not as common as the asymmetric d or s when used as a letter, but it is not rare and certainly not unique. In fact, it is found in the 116v marginalia in much the same way it is used in languages that use Latin scribal conventions.
  
• EVA-d was also the most common way to write the number 4 in Latin script from about the 1380s to the late 1400s.
  

Quote:The historian of medicine Alain Touwaide has spoken out against them on several occasions, saying that they lack the necessary historical expertise. Their response is that they don't care about Alain's opinion because he is not a botanist.

But there are also parts of the Codex Osuna written in Spanish, and in those sections, one sees a ligature that is superficially similar to Voynichese [font=Eva]t. This too is a common ligature (the second part usually represents "l"), one sees it in Spanish and French texts, but it differs from the way t is written in the VMS in that the connection between the two letters dips down much deeper than VMS t and the parts below the loops are much more curved. In other words, it does not have the tall straight ascenders that are so common to VMS t. Also, when it is at the beginnings of words, it is not preceded by "o", as frequently occurs with VMS t.

         

Even if there is a conceptual connection between the VMS t shape and the ligature in the Codex Osuna, it doesn't have anything to do with Nahuatl, since it is in the parts that are Spanish, and those parts are written with normal Latin scribal conventions, including per/pro, tails, ligatures, and abbreviations that one sees in many manuscripts.[/font]