Stars in f68r1/f68r2

[JustAnotherTheory]

I have a feeling that labelese is the true voynichese and the words written on the pages are some encryption changing the true words/sentenses and giving them weird properties. But then there ks no way to read both. The star labels seemed like a good starting point, but they also lead to nowhere ?

One idea could be to think of star labels as numbers, i.e., "one", "two", "thirty-one", etc... They seem to have the same prefix, perhaps that indicates that the label is a number?

[Bernd]

AI claims that mosaics in San Marco were inspired by an old Byzantine manuscript called Cotton Genesis:

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The Cotton Genesis appears to have been used in the 1220s as the basis for the design of 110 mosaic panels in the atrium of St Mark's Basilica in Venice,
presumably after it was brought to Venice following the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

Unfortunately Cotton Genesis was mostly destroyed in a fire in 1731 and today we don't have neither original nor a direct copy of this particular star picture from it.

But it seems to be the original source for San Marco and other creation illustrations from my examples.

Now we can wonder if it was the inspiration for Voynich Manuscript. If it was, it probably happened not directly, with Voynich author holding Cotton Genesis in his hands. I would say he also wasn't watching mosaics in San Marco. Rather he had some manuscript inspired by Cotton Genesis like my examples and used it as his inspiration.

Yes, I agree.
There must be (or have been) contemporary manuscripts with this context. I checked the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. but it contains no star constellations.

[Jimmy123]

Why would stars need to be labeled numbers? "Star 1", "Star 2", ... , "Star 123" sounds a bit silly to me (Jimmy)

But then what othet reason to label stars with same prefix? The logic escape me

[rikforto]

But then what othet reason to label stars with same prefix? The logic escape me

One of the lasting conjectures here is that star names come from Arabic and those beginning with al/ar/as and other such reflexes of the Arabic article are common. Because of the lasting impact of Arabic astronomy on Europen, this is especially true of the brightest stars you'd shortlist. You see a similar pattern on the Mansions of the Moon on f69v, which could also be evidence of the Arabic article. You need not think the whole Manuscript is in Arabic for this to be true, though no one has gotten very far with this conjecture. (Coincidentally, I've been working on this from an angle that, at least, no one has published, but I'm running into familiar problems. Sigh.)