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Hi Stellar

It is indeed likely that those represents star names, but you should check the names better. I just looked up one on wikipedia. This is just one example of a problematic name, I think there will be more since many star names are relatively recent. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

In the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Alpha CVn had no name until the 17th century, when it was named Cor Caroli, which means "Charles's Heart". 

Also, for example, Draco and Cetus are on extremely opposite ends of the celestial sphere, so it is highly unlikely that their stars will be placed next to each other...

Koen,

It is quite possible that old vellum was used! And as far as star positions go, we don't know what the Author was thinking yet your right some mistakes are possible, but I feel this is good work.

It has often been claimed, both before and after the release of the radiocarbon dating of the Voynich leaves, that it would have been either unlikely or impossible for the book’s creator to have found old vellum to make it from. This assumption has been used to presume the manuscript must have been made soon after the radiocarbon date of the vellum, which is approximately 1404-1438. It has been said that the cost of vellum and parchment throughout history has meant that it would not have ever been stored, blank, for long periods of time. And furthermore, the case of the palimpsest has been used to show that the value of vellum was so great that the religious scribes painstakingly bleached and scraped ancient manuscripts to reuse them. While all these may be true to some extent, during some times, in some places, what I have found is that it is not at all improbable that a Voynich author may have come across a batch of old, blank, vellum somewhere… and also, considering that some of the presumed intentions of said author, it would have actually been a choice more likely than one for your run of the mill herbal or astrological treatise.
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