20-01-2020, 12:16 AM
Quire 20 is the best name. It's an easy to remember number. "Recipes" is problematic because there is some confusion with the small plants section. So this is where the name really fails. It's one single quire, so just use its number.
And I agree that the same goes for Q13. I shiver whenever I read "biological section". Moreover, these are confusing again because it is unclear whether the entire quire is meant or just those pages presumed biological in content.
Anyway, terminology aside, how to attack this section? Anton, I like the way you're thinking. Templates can be of many shapes, and we may have missed some. I prefer any approach that's vocabulary based over attempts to actually read words.
However, I am reading regularly that we may not assume that Voynichese words are words as we would think of them. If that is true, vocabulary and pattern comparisons will also fail
And I agree that the same goes for Q13. I shiver whenever I read "biological section". Moreover, these are confusing again because it is unclear whether the entire quire is meant or just those pages presumed biological in content.
Anyway, terminology aside, how to attack this section? Anton, I like the way you're thinking. Templates can be of many shapes, and we may have missed some. I prefer any approach that's vocabulary based over attempts to actually read words.
However, I am reading regularly that we may not assume that Voynichese words are words as we would think of them. If that is true, vocabulary and pattern comparisons will also fail