27-09-2018, 12:20 PM
(27-09-2018, 03:21 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The first line is mostly German. It's not often one sees the "pf" combination in other languages. I've also looked at other possible languages for the first line, but it appears to be mostly German.
The second line is mostly Romance-language in terms of the combination of sounds (and the likelihood of "portas" near the end).
The third line is mostly Latin.
The fourth line (after the Voynichese) is mostly German. "so nim gaf/gas mich" is very close to readable German and is not at all like Latin or Spanish (or French). There just isn't quite enough of it to know what it is referring to.
The spelling is not unusual. Spelling nimm as nim was common and "gaf" was used for the word "gave" in some areas. If you look closely at the high-res version, you can see a scrape in the parchment that runs from the stem-region of the long-ess up and to the right, so the possibility of "gaf" rather than "gas" is there.
From the very beginning my approach to the marginalia was to be optimistic and assume that it provided us with information useful for decoding the VMS.
Thus, I never gave serious consideration to pox leber as German words meaning goat's liver. For one thing, I could not connect those words with anything that would help decode the VMS, and, on the other hand, those words are ridiculous for a manuscript that concerns itself far more with botany than biology.
Having found that pox leber are genuine German words, you probably did not bother to notice that the x of pox is a much darker ink that could be overwriting another letter. And for sure that dot above the r of leber became completely invisible to you. But I saw that dot and the top of the first e pointing over to it.
Liber, a Latin word meaning book as a noun or free as an adjective certainly makes a lot more sense than your liver. If that dot were not there, you'd be OK with leber. But, sorry, that dot is there and you ignore it at your own peril.
For the third and fourth German words on the first line, I presume that you are going to tell us what they are and what those words mean. I could not immediately identify them nor have I yet spent much time on them.
Regarding your comment on "pf", know that the Free Dictionary has found 2,465 English words containing "pf", so perhaps it could be helpful to broaden your outlook though I concur it's likely German.