23-04-2021, 03:57 AM
I have a new piece of evidence to present in support of the Yorkist theory of the Voynich manuscript.
I need to begin by presenting a brief statistical analysis of the positional occurrence of the so-called "bench-gallows ligature" characters, which are represented in the EVA transcription system as [cth], [ckh], [cph], and [cfh]. There is a curious statistical anomaly, which as far as I am aware cannot be explained by a purely glyph-based analysis of the script and the ms text. The anomaly is that EVA [cth] and [cph] occur in initial position in words with much greater frequency than do EVA [ckh] and [cfh]:
EVA [cth] : word-initial in 498 of 945 occurrences in the ms (53%)
EVA [ckh] : word-initial in 195 of 907 occurrences in the ms (21%)
EVA [cph] : word-initial in 131 of 217 occurrences in the ms (60%)
EVA [cfh] : word-initial in 33 of 74 occurrences in the ms (45%)
In my reading and interpretation of the first line of the Voynich manuscript (folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ), I identified the ligature EVA [cth] as the letter "M". It is logical that the ligature EVA [cph] may also represent "M" in the first lines of paragraphs, where it almost exclusively occurs in the ms text.
Also, these characters EVA [cth] and [cph], like [ckh] and [cfh], almost never occur in word-final position. The prominent first-line character EVA [cph], like [cfh], absolutely never occurs in word-final position in the entire Voynich manuscript.
The Yorkist theory provides an explanation for this statistical anomaly: From 1399 to 1425, the Yorkists supported the claim to the English throne of Edmund MortiMer, the 5th Earl of March. I capitalize both M's in MortiMer to emphasise that both the name itself and its 3rd syllable (with secondary stress in the word) begin with the letter "M".
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In contrast, the character that is coincidentally represented in the EVA transcription system as EVA "[m]" occurs with overwhelming frequency in final position of Voynich ms words: It occurs in word-final position in 1051 of its 1105 occurrences (95% of them!) in the Voynich manuscript. This overwhelmingly word-final "EVA [m]" character is well-known to those of us who study the Voynich ms text and its script.
This "EVA [m]" character is also the last letter in each of the only three words of text on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the page with the illustration of a plant that I analysed as a symbolic representation of the House of York family tree earlier in this thread. The three words of text are written right next to the bottommost part of the bottommost leftmost leaf of the plant, which I argue symbolises the Yorkist author's view of the Lancastrian usurper of the crown and his actual low position in the family tree, in contrast with the position of the Yorkist white flowers at the top of the family tree.
As I presented previously in this thread, my analysis interprets the three words of text as "fob sib isib", which are Middle English words meaning "deceiver/cheat related by blood or marriage, closely related" and also "deceiver/cheat branch linked/kin to the root". Thus, this almost always word-final character "EVA [m]" actually represents the letter "B".
The first Lancastrian king of England, Henry IV, before he overthrew and imprisoned Richard II in 1399 and usurped the throne, was known by the name Henry BolingBroke.
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Geoffrey
I need to begin by presenting a brief statistical analysis of the positional occurrence of the so-called "bench-gallows ligature" characters, which are represented in the EVA transcription system as [cth], [ckh], [cph], and [cfh]. There is a curious statistical anomaly, which as far as I am aware cannot be explained by a purely glyph-based analysis of the script and the ms text. The anomaly is that EVA [cth] and [cph] occur in initial position in words with much greater frequency than do EVA [ckh] and [cfh]:
EVA [cth] : word-initial in 498 of 945 occurrences in the ms (53%)
EVA [ckh] : word-initial in 195 of 907 occurrences in the ms (21%)
EVA [cph] : word-initial in 131 of 217 occurrences in the ms (60%)
EVA [cfh] : word-initial in 33 of 74 occurrences in the ms (45%)
In my reading and interpretation of the first line of the Voynich manuscript (folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ), I identified the ligature EVA [cth] as the letter "M". It is logical that the ligature EVA [cph] may also represent "M" in the first lines of paragraphs, where it almost exclusively occurs in the ms text.
Also, these characters EVA [cth] and [cph], like [ckh] and [cfh], almost never occur in word-final position. The prominent first-line character EVA [cph], like [cfh], absolutely never occurs in word-final position in the entire Voynich manuscript.
The Yorkist theory provides an explanation for this statistical anomaly: From 1399 to 1425, the Yorkists supported the claim to the English throne of Edmund MortiMer, the 5th Earl of March. I capitalize both M's in MortiMer to emphasise that both the name itself and its 3rd syllable (with secondary stress in the word) begin with the letter "M".
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In contrast, the character that is coincidentally represented in the EVA transcription system as EVA "[m]" occurs with overwhelming frequency in final position of Voynich ms words: It occurs in word-final position in 1051 of its 1105 occurrences (95% of them!) in the Voynich manuscript. This overwhelmingly word-final "EVA [m]" character is well-known to those of us who study the Voynich ms text and its script.
This "EVA [m]" character is also the last letter in each of the only three words of text on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the page with the illustration of a plant that I analysed as a symbolic representation of the House of York family tree earlier in this thread. The three words of text are written right next to the bottommost part of the bottommost leftmost leaf of the plant, which I argue symbolises the Yorkist author's view of the Lancastrian usurper of the crown and his actual low position in the family tree, in contrast with the position of the Yorkist white flowers at the top of the family tree.
As I presented previously in this thread, my analysis interprets the three words of text as "fob sib isib", which are Middle English words meaning "deceiver/cheat related by blood or marriage, closely related" and also "deceiver/cheat branch linked/kin to the root". Thus, this almost always word-final character "EVA [m]" actually represents the letter "B".
The first Lancastrian king of England, Henry IV, before he overthrew and imprisoned Richard II in 1399 and usurped the throne, was known by the name Henry BolingBroke.
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Geoffrey