Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

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Since you are unable to say when and by whom the Latin names of months were entered in, I fail to see how you can claim that it cannot include the letter v. I see words like "vn" in early publications and that must have come from a handwritten manuscript. Most of all, I think it important that the interpretation of the handwriting be made to comply with word spellings that really existed, which you fail to mention for abirel and abiril. In contrast, abril, abrial and abrival are real words....

I did not write "abirel"---you copied that wrong.

I said "aberil" and "abiril" ("abiril" is less likely than "aberil") and it was quite acceptable to add a vowel to "abril" in the 15th and early 16th centuries (without taking the other month-names into consideration, "Abril" was both Spanish and French and not specifically Catalan).


If you read my message again, you will see that I noted that the writing and abbreviation style were consistent with 15th and very early 16th-century Gothic script. I have looked at thousands of and thousands of samples of this form of writing, have read hundreds of manuscripts in this style in numerous languages, and have collected almost as many samples and nobody who wrote in that style of script wrote "V" that way but many of them wrote "r" exactly as it is written on that label.

Morten St. George:
BTW, by my theories, it is also impossible for these month names to be "handwriting from the 15th and very early 16th centuries" as you claim because during that time frame the VMS lived in Peru. The handwriting is likely post 1584, when it arrived in Europe, though the possibility of written in Peru after 1533 cannot be ruled out.

That is only a theory and I doubt that you have as much experience with 15th century scripts as I have, so I am speaking from experience and you are trying to impose a date on the handwriting based on a hypothesis rather than on direct observation of how it is written.

Thanks, but you have not yet answered my question: To which languages do the words 'aberil' and 'abiril' apply? Is there a historical record of the use of those specific spellings?

Is there any chance the final 'l' could be an exaggerated 'e'?

What do you think of "octebre" on folio 72v instead of "octubre" or "octobre"? My Latin text has "astrelogi" instead of "astrologi". Just a coincidence? Are you able to clearly distinguish between the "br" in "octebre" and the "be" in "aberil"?

The scholars who broke the Voynich code (my theory) had the following quirks in their handwriting from the viewpoint of printings and printing errors: frequent confusion between the letters 'u' and 'n' and occasional confusion between the letters 'r' and 't' and between the letters 'G' and 'C'. They used 'v' for 'u' at the beginning of words and 'u' for 'v' in the middle of words. The 's' looked close to an 'f' except at the end of a word when it could look like an 's' or a 'z', but 'S' looked like 'S'. A 'c' could sometimes look like an 'x', and a 'c' before the letter 't' could look like a cursive 'E'.  The letters 'i' and 'y' were freely interchanged. They also used 'i' for the letter 'j'. They sometimes wrote the letters 'on' as an 'o' with a bar on top.

Let me know if any of that helps.