25-04-2021, 12:59 AM
Ordinarily I would not make a separate post about half a line of text, but in this case I must make an exception, for reasons which I think will become clear to readers below.
Of course after the identification of David Jackson's Welsh dragon devouring the Lancastrian king in the illustration in the center of folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as a reference to the Glyndwr (Glendower) Rising of 1400-1415 against Henry IV (Bolingbroke) of England, I had to study the center ring of text immediately around this illustration on this page.
I am pleased to be able to report that I can now make one additional provisional letter identification based on the analysis of the text below: the character combination represented as EVA [od] = "soft c" (pronounced like "s"). This particular character combination had not yet appeared in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (David Jackson's House of York illustration page), nor in the first line of text in the Voynich manuscript on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and no "soft c" appeared in the reading or interpretation of those lines of text either. (I have already provisionally identified the character EVA [d] alone as the letter "long s".)
The first word which caught my attention in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the 5th word (of 8 words in this ring of text): EVA [okechs]. The reading of this word according to my provisional letter correspondences is "deYl". This is notable because the 6th word (of 10) in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (House of York page) is EVA [okees] or "deel". In the latter, York page, ring of text, this word is followed immediately by the word EVA [chory] = "YORK". Thus one would naturally expect the identification of the corresponding "name of the House" represented on the page to immediately follow the corresponding word on the "Welsh dragon devouring Lancaster" page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as well.
The three words which immediately follow EVA [okechs] = "deYl" in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the following:
EVA [chepchees aly oteodal]
= "YepYeel isK fecis"
The second of these three words is read backwards because it ends in the "K" character. The word is written backwards in order to make it end with the same character as the word "YORK".
Thus, these three words should actually be read "YepYeel Ksi fecis".
I interpret this phrase as "j'appelle quasi fecis".
Thus, the last four words of the ring of text are "del j'appelle quasi fecis".
Modern English translation: "of the [House] I call (as) shit".
(Please pardon my Anglo-Norman.)
quasi (Latin) - "as if", "as (like)"
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fece (Middle English) - "(a) A sedimentary deposit; sediment, dregs, lees; (b) pl. excrement."
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plural form "fecis" in 4 attested examples:
"a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)169/16 : Þe vttere wombe in whiche ben lacertis, for to helpe putte out þe fecis & wijnd & vrine."
"a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)43/15 : Þe fecis of a litil wex..ben gode to a senewe þat is prickid."
"a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)4/7 : Rotun fecis of wiyn."
"a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)48b : By thy sight thow shalt well witt ffro feculent fecis when it is qwitte."
Geoffrey
Of course after the identification of David Jackson's Welsh dragon devouring the Lancastrian king in the illustration in the center of folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as a reference to the Glyndwr (Glendower) Rising of 1400-1415 against Henry IV (Bolingbroke) of England, I had to study the center ring of text immediately around this illustration on this page.
I am pleased to be able to report that I can now make one additional provisional letter identification based on the analysis of the text below: the character combination represented as EVA [od] = "soft c" (pronounced like "s"). This particular character combination had not yet appeared in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (David Jackson's House of York illustration page), nor in the first line of text in the Voynich manuscript on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and no "soft c" appeared in the reading or interpretation of those lines of text either. (I have already provisionally identified the character EVA [d] alone as the letter "long s".)
The first word which caught my attention in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the 5th word (of 8 words in this ring of text): EVA [okechs]. The reading of this word according to my provisional letter correspondences is "deYl". This is notable because the 6th word (of 10) in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (House of York page) is EVA [okees] or "deel". In the latter, York page, ring of text, this word is followed immediately by the word EVA [chory] = "YORK". Thus one would naturally expect the identification of the corresponding "name of the House" represented on the page to immediately follow the corresponding word on the "Welsh dragon devouring Lancaster" page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as well.
The three words which immediately follow EVA [okechs] = "deYl" in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the following:
EVA [chepchees aly oteodal]
= "YepYeel isK fecis"
The second of these three words is read backwards because it ends in the "K" character. The word is written backwards in order to make it end with the same character as the word "YORK".
Thus, these three words should actually be read "YepYeel Ksi fecis".
I interpret this phrase as "j'appelle quasi fecis".
Thus, the last four words of the ring of text are "del j'appelle quasi fecis".
Modern English translation: "of the [House] I call (as) shit".
(Please pardon my Anglo-Norman.)
quasi (Latin) - "as if", "as (like)"
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
fece (Middle English) - "(a) A sedimentary deposit; sediment, dregs, lees; (b) pl. excrement."
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
plural form "fecis" in 4 attested examples:
"a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)169/16 : Þe vttere wombe in whiche ben lacertis, for to helpe putte out þe fecis & wijnd & vrine."
"a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)43/15 : Þe fecis of a litil wex..ben gode to a senewe þat is prickid."
"a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)4/7 : Rotun fecis of wiyn."
"a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)48b : By thy sight thow shalt well witt ffro feculent fecis when it is qwitte."
Geoffrey