[Book] "The Voynich Manuscript" (Watkins reproduction)

[MarcoP]

Marco: I have a physical copy of the book and you can read the foreword in its entirety on the amazon preview - I double checked to see whether it's complete. That's really all there is to it. Go here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and then you can click the cover, browse through to page 12 and 13 to read the complete mikvah argument.

Thank you, Koen! It looks rather thin to support statements of the kind "it must be this way". I do believe it may be that way, though: ritual baths (not necessarily Hebrew) are an idea we discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. 

I find particularly interesting the importance of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. for the Rom:
The lower parts of the woman’s body, and in particular the genitals, are considered as mahrime [unclean] and in a transferred sense they are the original source of all ritual uncleanliness.

But also generalizing from "Jewish ritual purification" to "ritual purification", this is just one of several possibilities.