Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

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I am particularly obsessed by parallels and good parallels for features in the VMS are often impossible to find.
But in this case You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. pointed out a great one: the alchemical herbal Vicenza Bertoliana MS 362 (sample page from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). 

• The same word ("rot")
  
• In a similar manuscript (a one-plant-per-page herbal)
  
• In a similar position (annotating the plant illustration)
  
• From the same time-frame (XV Century)
  

I believe this particular piece of evidence adds immensely to the relevance of this detail. The parallel with the Vicenza ms was also published by Alain Touwaide in his 2015 paper "L'Erbario Voynich".


Moreover, the Vicenza ms contains other annotations that can be compared with the VMS: for instance 'g' for 'grün' inside green-painted leaves (see Rene's post I linked above).

I think this parallels have several possible implication:

• at least some members of the team that created the VMS spoke German;
  
• they were aware of this style of colour annotations;
  
• they were probably familiar with the "alchemical" one-plant-per-page layout.
  

But of course this evidence does not rule out the possibility that the underlying language of the main text is Turkic (though it certainly does nothing to support the idea).