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It's amazing how much more readable it is. Glyphs that I couldn't see at all in the regular scans are fairly clear. I've always suspected it was the same hand as the last page, now I'm pretty certain it is.




It looks to me like:

mallier aller  l?u[corum/crum] her  v?llaumie/v?llaumic  oteeior/oteeeor d?M

The first Voynichese vord appears more connected, more scriptlike than the way most VMS vords are written (more of a bottom serif), but still looks very much like the main script.


I still feel the beginning reads as "paint all green here" with the "green" part in Latin . I'm not sure how to interpret v?llaumie/v?llaumic/u?llamnic/v?llaumic. Villaume and Villaumie are French names, but a surname wouldn't fit the context and it's hard to make out the in-between letters in v-lla---ic. Are they u, m, n, or i?? Is the last letter "c" or "e"?.


Because of "mallier aller" it has always struck me as rather Norman-esque (a blend of old French and Norse)—now that I can see the fifth word better (even if not perfectly), IF that is "llau" then it seems even more so.