No text, but a visual code

[-JKP-]

This manuscript has been linked numerous times.

The script is a talismanic script. It is used for summoning or repelling demons (depending on who is using it and how it is being used). At one point (years ago), I learned most of the characters but I have since forgotten them.

Notice how the drawing on the left is bowl-shaped. I didn't know what this signified the first time I saw it, but then I realized it was probably a reference to talismanic bowls. They are quite interesting, with talismanic (demon-repelling scripts) written around in a circle in their interiors and sometimes also exteriors.

Here is an example:

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This is Mandaic script, not the same script as the Bodleian manuscript, but it's the same idea and the two scripts were used in similar ways.


The loops and lines are typical of talismanic scripts and were also used for angel names and constellation diagrams in Hebrew and western manuscripts.


Any script that is based around lines and small loops has a high probability of having a glyph or two in common with the VMS, in this case EVA-k and EVA-t. However, EVA-k and t can also be found in Latin and Greek scripts, so it's difficult to determine the exact origin of the idea in the Voynich script. Overall, however, the talismanic script is not very similar to Voynichese.