24-11-2018, 05:37 AM
JP,
Back in September I asked you if the fourth word of marginalia at the top You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be the English word "how" and I can't seem to find your response. This is the word here:
![[Image: img-vms-how.jpg]](http://manuscrit-de-voynich.com/img-vms-how.jpg)
Looking at it from a certain angle, I can envision a "w" after the "ho", maybe even the swirl of an "e" after the "w", but it's all very faint, so there can be no assurances about anything, which is why I would welcome your opinion on it.
The reason I am bringing up the issue again is that I have found a way for the letter sequence "how" to be meaningful and yet not be the English word "how". As you know, it has been suggested that Voynichese script could be consonants only, in which case the 17 glyphs (repeated four times around one of the wheels on f57v) might be, instead of or in addition to a transliteration alphabet, a mechanism used to insert vowels into and around the consonants.
Looking for clues, I've been reading literature written in southern France around the year 1200 (the time and place of the people who I'm quite sure created the VMS encryption system) and I did in fact find a vocalization. And guess what? Ignoring spaces (the sequences are merged without spaces on the wheels), it has exactly 17 letters! : Yahawa Yahowe Yihwo, said to allude to past, present and future existence which seems quite appropriate for the 'divine revelation' encoded into the VMS recipes.
But here's the point: look at that middle word and you'll see the letter sequence "how".
What I like most about this idea is that the "yi" of "Yihwo" opens the possibility of inserting both a "y" and an "i" into the output. For a long time I have been trying to find an explanation for "bruine" in prophecy V-35 versus "bruyne" in prophecy VI-37, consistently written as such in all the early publications, which is quite surprising as the y's and i's were freely interchangeable everywhere else. It has to be that VMS decoding can distinguish y's and i's, and the "yi" could be the answer.
In the English-language writings of the marginalia's author we read: "...my last Will & Testament (written every sillable with myne owne hand, and with long ' and mature deliberacon digested, contayning foure sheetes of paper, the First of eight and Iwenty lynes the second of nyne & Iwenty the third of nine & Iwenty and the Fourth of six lines,..."
Note the "nyne" of the first 29 versus the "nine" of the second 29. Add the following "six" to the second 29 and we get 35 for the "bruine", as indeed found in V-35. Before you write this off as a coincidence, let's look at what this guy wrote in the third line of f116v, here capitalizing the letters that correspond to Roman numerals from the first I to the second I (the I's of Iwenty):
sIX + maurX + mourX +VIx
IX (9) + X (10) + X (10) = 29 + VI (6) = 35
Arriving at 35 by adding "six" (the first word of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. citation and the last number of the English citation) to 29 is convincing when combined with a mountain of other evidence linking this guy to the VMS and its marginalia.
I hope I didn't lose with this obscure logic. Anyway, your comments on the mysterious "how" would be much appreciated.
Back in September I asked you if the fourth word of marginalia at the top You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could be the English word "how" and I can't seem to find your response. This is the word here:
Looking at it from a certain angle, I can envision a "w" after the "ho", maybe even the swirl of an "e" after the "w", but it's all very faint, so there can be no assurances about anything, which is why I would welcome your opinion on it.
The reason I am bringing up the issue again is that I have found a way for the letter sequence "how" to be meaningful and yet not be the English word "how". As you know, it has been suggested that Voynichese script could be consonants only, in which case the 17 glyphs (repeated four times around one of the wheels on f57v) might be, instead of or in addition to a transliteration alphabet, a mechanism used to insert vowels into and around the consonants.
Looking for clues, I've been reading literature written in southern France around the year 1200 (the time and place of the people who I'm quite sure created the VMS encryption system) and I did in fact find a vocalization. And guess what? Ignoring spaces (the sequences are merged without spaces on the wheels), it has exactly 17 letters! : Yahawa Yahowe Yihwo, said to allude to past, present and future existence which seems quite appropriate for the 'divine revelation' encoded into the VMS recipes.
But here's the point: look at that middle word and you'll see the letter sequence "how".
What I like most about this idea is that the "yi" of "Yihwo" opens the possibility of inserting both a "y" and an "i" into the output. For a long time I have been trying to find an explanation for "bruine" in prophecy V-35 versus "bruyne" in prophecy VI-37, consistently written as such in all the early publications, which is quite surprising as the y's and i's were freely interchangeable everywhere else. It has to be that VMS decoding can distinguish y's and i's, and the "yi" could be the answer.
In the English-language writings of the marginalia's author we read: "...my last Will & Testament (written every sillable with myne owne hand, and with long ' and mature deliberacon digested, contayning foure sheetes of paper, the First of eight and Iwenty lynes the second of nyne & Iwenty the third of nine & Iwenty and the Fourth of six lines,..."
Note the "nyne" of the first 29 versus the "nine" of the second 29. Add the following "six" to the second 29 and we get 35 for the "bruine", as indeed found in V-35. Before you write this off as a coincidence, let's look at what this guy wrote in the third line of f116v, here capitalizing the letters that correspond to Roman numerals from the first I to the second I (the I's of Iwenty):
sIX + maurX + mourX +VIx
IX (9) + X (10) + X (10) = 29 + VI (6) = 35
Arriving at 35 by adding "six" (the first word of the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. citation and the last number of the English citation) to 29 is convincing when combined with a mountain of other evidence linking this guy to the VMS and its marginalia.
I hope I didn't lose with this obscure logic. Anyway, your comments on the mysterious "how" would be much appreciated.