geoffreycaveney's Judaeo-Greek theory

[geoffreycaveney]

Geoffrey, how well does your system generalize to a paragraph of text?

It's not especially difficult to find a line that will resolve into somewhat readable text. It's a long manuscript, there's lots of text.

But does it work if you use the same system on the phrases before and after?

JKP, this is a good question. Every line is a lot of work, as you can see from the discussion in this thread. I think my latest version at the end of my last response to Marco, "eipan tis ipeirous otan skiais tis , eipan oun" = "they said when the continents are in the shadows, then they said", is the best version yet, but of course all such interpretations must be considered tentative at this preliminary stage, to say the least. At least this version incorporates your pilcrow theory to disregard the gallows character that begins the first word!

The obvious next test is the very next line of text, which now must present a logical continuation of the first line and finish the clause that began "then they said". I am working on it. I can tell you that in the middle of the second line, my system interprets the Voynich word [oeteody] as "oikious" or "oikous" (I have a hypothesis that [eo] may represent a single vowel, not the two vowels in sequence). This is the Greek word "houses", and in fact if you look it up in a dictionary you will see that one of the given definitions is "one of the 12 divisions of an astrological chart"! 

Of course this also is tentative at this stage, and it remains to make grammatical sense of the rest of this second line. But the appearance of this word here is at least interesting.