Greek body parts, head to toe in order, in red labels on f67r 2

[geoffreycaveney]

I'm very familiar with this. In visual form, it's called "zodiac man" and is in many 15th-century manuscripts. I figured it might be somewhere in the VMS as well.

In fact, I've often wondered if the nymphs around the zodiac symbols represent good and bad days for bloodletting, which was sometimes reckoned on a 30-day interval rather than monthly calendar intervals.

Yes, good point about "zodiac man". I have attached an example so readers can see what we're talking about. The actual complete illustration also listed the names of the Zodiac signs and body parts around the outside of the diagram, but the whole thing is too big a file size for an attachment here.

I'm very interested in your idea about the nymphs and good and bad days for bloodletting! Do you have an idea about what each such label might say, what kind of words and phrases they might use? Are there other examples of such day-by-day lists that we can refer to for comparison?

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On an unrelated note, regarding my correspondences of Voynich characters to (quasi-Judaeo-)Greek phonemes, the most unexpected or perhaps unnatural one is probably the identification of Voynich [d] as either "u/v" or by extension "v/b/p". 

I note that the label next to the apparent illustration of the Pleiades is [doaro] (last character somewhat unclear). The first letter gives us a likely match between Voynich [d] and Greek "p" (or "p" in "Pleiades" in many languages).

Also, for those who can read Greek, the Greek Wikipedia page on the Pleiades: 

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notes that a more modern Greek name for the Pleiades is "Poulia". This actually matches very closely with my system's reading of [doaro] as "poAlA", understanding that the vowel matches are not always precise. It is also possible that the last character is [y] and it is just a generic symbol for a variety of final suffixes. In fact, a [y] at the end of "Poulia" would match the [y] at the end of "matia" in the "eyes" red label in my original post here.

Geoffrey