02-01-2020, 06:30 PM
At the centre of f68v3 there is a T/O map. In the top right corner of the Rosettes foldout page there is a T/O map.
From my experience all or almost all T/O maps from that period represent the 3 continents Africa, Europe and Asia, with Asia represented as a half circle and the other two continents as quarters.
Sometimes there are other locations highlighted with the T/O map, sometimes not, sometimes just a list of other locations.
So on the rosettes folio I think EVA-asal is "asia".
I have been looking at the text in the top right quarter of the T/O map on f68v3 and the equivalent text in the bottom left quarter of the T/O map on the rosettes folio. This is the text that would correspond to "Europa". The text on the rosettes folio looks to me like an abbreviated version of the text on f68v3. However determining visually whether this is correct is very hard. So I would welcome opinions on this and arguments as to how can determine this.
I think we have in this case what Nick Pelling would term a block paradigm, albeit a small one. However this would be both an internal and external block paradigm.
Also, when I search on voynichese.com there are no examples of words starting EVA-opee so I wonder if this is due to transcription errors or whether words starting this way are very rare.
To me this indicates that we would really benefit from even higher resolution scans.
(I think the list in the half circle on f68v3 is likely to be a list of locations in asia.)
From my experience all or almost all T/O maps from that period represent the 3 continents Africa, Europe and Asia, with Asia represented as a half circle and the other two continents as quarters.
Sometimes there are other locations highlighted with the T/O map, sometimes not, sometimes just a list of other locations.
So on the rosettes folio I think EVA-asal is "asia".
I have been looking at the text in the top right quarter of the T/O map on f68v3 and the equivalent text in the bottom left quarter of the T/O map on the rosettes folio. This is the text that would correspond to "Europa". The text on the rosettes folio looks to me like an abbreviated version of the text on f68v3. However determining visually whether this is correct is very hard. So I would welcome opinions on this and arguments as to how can determine this.
I think we have in this case what Nick Pelling would term a block paradigm, albeit a small one. However this would be both an internal and external block paradigm.
Also, when I search on voynichese.com there are no examples of words starting EVA-opee so I wonder if this is due to transcription errors or whether words starting this way are very rare.
To me this indicates that we would really benefit from even higher resolution scans.
(I think the list in the half circle on f68v3 is likely to be a list of locations in asia.)