Thanks (Sir) Hubert,
I remember the list of these extraneous writings that was made shortly after the first publication of the 2004 scans, but from the site maintained by GC: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which was equally discontinued.
Several people had 'sub-sites' there, and the one giving the annotations undoubtedly was from the same source Rueben Ogburn. I even have a deja-vu feeling about writing this. (I may have had a similar exchange with Nick).
I first saw the 'r o t' of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in1999 when I saw the Voynich MS in the Beinecke. I did't interpret it as 'rot' at this time, but wondered if these were Greek letters that should be read with the head tilted 90 to the left, i.e. from bottom to top.
It only made real sense to me when I saw the Vicenza MS already mentioned by Marco above, with its colour annotations. I pointed them out to Alain Touwaide, when I met him in 2014, and I consider it valuable that he confirms this understanding in his article.
Edit: here's one wayback link to the voynich central page:
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I remember the list of these extraneous writings that was made shortly after the first publication of the 2004 scans, but from the site maintained by GC: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which was equally discontinued.
Several people had 'sub-sites' there, and the one giving the annotations undoubtedly was from the same source Rueben Ogburn. I even have a deja-vu feeling about writing this. (I may have had a similar exchange with Nick).
I first saw the 'r o t' of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in1999 when I saw the Voynich MS in the Beinecke. I did't interpret it as 'rot' at this time, but wondered if these were Greek letters that should be read with the head tilted 90 to the left, i.e. from bottom to top.
It only made real sense to me when I saw the Vicenza MS already mentioned by Marco above, with its colour annotations. I pointed them out to Alain Touwaide, when I met him in 2014, and I consider it valuable that he confirms this understanding in his article.
Edit: here's one wayback link to the voynich central page:
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

