04-10-2018, 06:11 AM
(04-10-2018, 05:30 AM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Medieval dialects were spoken languages, few used by the literate classes and they actually formed a continuum across the geographic areas - which is why there is debate over whether the Voynich month-names are Judeo-Catalan, or Occitan etc. and why e.g. even today, English dialects include ones where e.g. 'done' is always used where standard English demands 'did'. For all we know, the Voynich marginalia represent notes added to the manuscript from information given by non-literate persons whose dialect isn't straight 'Occitan' or 'Catalan' or 'French' according to modern classificiation..... For all we know.
I'm not sure why you are mixing comments about the 116v marginalia with comments about the zodiac-symbol labels. They are definitely not the same handwriting and could have been added decades apart.

