(04-10-2020, 08:01 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Isn't it very unusual not to name things in manuscripts of that period?
Perhaps it is, but, once again, the Voynich manuscript is something already very unusual.
(04-10-2020, 08:01 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Without a name doesn't it make it rather difficult to know which plant/star etc. is being referred to?
No, it does not, provided there is a mnemonic which resolves to the name. Mnemonic systems is something quite well-used in the Renaissance.
Quote:When you say good and evil spirits it seems to me that you are swapping one name for another
Not swapping, but building an association of one to another. Developing this further, imagine that the point is that an f68r1/r2 label ceases (or, rather, might cease) to be a simple notion (be that noun or adjective, does not matter), and appears rather an "operator + notion" construct, like e.g. otol = o over tol. For example otol might be "with tol" or "related to tol", while qotol might be "without tol". There's a thread in the forum where I develop this in more detail, can't remember its name offhand. This would explain the high proportion of o-starting labels.