[split] The Strange Thing on 116v

[Morten St. George]

Hi Morten,

My focus on the abomasum has been not about the exact animal (whether lamb, deer or otherwise - so far it's ruminant it would fit the concept), but about that "lab" is rennet-bag in German. Being augmented with the pics of the ruminant-like animal and the abomasum-like object, this (amongst some other pieces of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. marginalia) directs one to a question of what does that mean that the scribe picked up German (of all possible languages) to inscript at least part of f116v. This question becomes even more interesting in the view of the last line, which combines Voynichese with plain text - suggesting that it was a person who "understood" Voynichese who wrote the marginalia. In other words, the person knew at least a bit of some kind of those days' "German" and preferred to use it on this occasion.

I'm confused: Are you insinuating that the script on the last page of the VMS, in contrast to the drawings of animal and woman, was not made by the original author but was added at a later date?

Per my theory, the decoding of the VMS (and publication of parts of it) was the first project of a secret society called the Rose Cross. As you probably know, their manifesto was written in German.