11-01-2017, 08:21 AM
Quote:Suppose the text uses "star" by reference to some of the cosmological sections? It doesn't have to actually be the word "star", it could be any combination of glyphs to mean star and thus wouldn't necessarily match glyph-by-glyph to other words on the same page.
Well, that would be fine for one folio, but that would not scale for the whole botanical section, I think. There are 100+ Voynich plants there, and there are simply not as many thematical sections in the VMS to be cross-referenced by plant names. If there is some inner principle, then it would be applied as a system.