[Just for fun] State of the Voynich 2016

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1. Does the text contain any meaning?
   
2. Has the text been purposefully enciphered to conceal its meaning?
   
3. Do the images match the text?
   
4. Are the plants meant to refer to real plants?
   
5. Is the majority of the plants exotic from a European perspective (Asian, African, American...)?
   
6. Have the images been made ambiguous or otherwise strange to conceal their true meaning?
   
7. Is alchemy an important part of the manuscript?
   
8. Is astronomy and/or astrology an important part of the MS?
   
9. Is medicine an important part of the MS?
   
10. Is the MS the creative product of one mind, i.e. an author? (Taking into account the possibility that one or more scribes helped to fashion the physical manuscript)
    
11. Is the MS authored by a known historical figure?
    
12. Will we ever be able to read the MS?
    
13. Will there be any breakthrough in Voynich studies in 2017?
    
14. Is the MS any kind of hoax?
    

1. Open questions:
   
2. In a few words, what is quire 13 about? (bathing, anatomy, angels......)
   
3. In a few words, what is quire 20 about?
   
4. If we were able to read the script, which language(s) would we read, if any?
   

@ Koen and all,

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) Yes-and hidden messages
5) No
6) No- The Artist either had a time constraint or was an average Artist; that is why it looks odd.
7) Yes
8) Yes
9) Yes
10) Yes
11) Yes the cipher implies this, because he came in contact with many powerful people. i.e. Zodiac imagery
12) Yes- I am
13) Yes
14) The VMS text has meaning, but we don't know when the text was written on the Vellum.
     
    Open Questions:
     1) Quire 13, relates to middle age woman preparing for suicide or the next demension, Rainbows.  Tombstones and Cross, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. uses alchemy to try and cure these woman.  Another idea here is they are pregnant and know there is a possibility of death from abortion.
     2) Proverbs-Solomon
     3) Middle English, Maybe Modern English, Latin, Greek, French

Ophelia's death is eroticized and associated with female gendered nature; even her drowning ‘has associations with the feminine and the irrational, since water is the organic symbol of woman's fluidity: blood, milk, tears’.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. As in Desdemona's story of Barbary, Ophelia is described as singing as she dies:
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