12-05-2021, 02:20 AM
About the b-reversal: As many Voynich MS researchers know, the character EVA [m] tends to occur at the end of a line of text. In these 10 lines, this character, which I read as the Yorkist cipher letter value "b", occurs as the final character of 5 of the 10 lines! To wit, the 7th, 5th, 3rd, and 2nd lines from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , and also the 3rd line from the top of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . I consider 50% of the lines in this passage to be a rather substantial proportion of line-final EVA [m] / Yorkist cipher letter value "b", although that was not even my particular aim to identify a large proportion of line-final "b" in this passage of text. It just happened to be there.
My initial inspiration to identify the cipher rule to write any plaintext word with initial "b" backwards to make "b" appear in word-final position instead came from the three words of text on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , where all three words end in EVA [m]. It so happens that all three of those words spell Middle English words both when read forwards and when read backwards. That was where the idea of the backwards b-words cipher rule first occurred to me.
Also, in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the only two words that must be read backwards are the 5th and 10th words, which both have word-final EVA [m].
You can catch up on this particular topic within the thread by reading the following posts: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Again, I identified the backwards b-words cipher rule based on all of these prior passages of text, before I ever even looked at the 10 lines of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that are under discussion here.
Again, the "Yorkist" motivation for this rule is to banish the first letter of "BolingBroke", the name of the first Lancastrian king Henry IV, to the end of almost every word in which it appears.
Thus, the Middle English words "bimoueth", "BiYtch", "biri", and "bou" are all written backwards at the ends of lines in this passage, because of this rule.
The Middle English word "si-sib" does not need to be written backwards, because "b" is already at the end of it, "where it belongs" according to the Yorkist anti-Bolingbroke perspective of the authors and creators of this cipher!
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You also ask about examples of y/th being reversed in words in this passage. I can point to the following examples:
In the 7th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [sheol] = Yorkist "theOs" = Middle English "soueth".
Same line, sixth word EVA [sholar] = Yorkist "thOsir" = Middle English "riseth". (I explain elsewhere that "O" is sometimes written to represent an unstressed "e" in endings such as "-er" and "-eth". The "Yorkist" motivation is to make the letter "O" in "YORK" appear as frequently as possible in the text.)
And the final word in this line is an example of both the backwards b-words and backwards final-th-words cipher rules: EVA [sheoctham] = Yorkist "theOmib" = Middle English "bimoueth".
In the 6th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [shokal] = Yorkist "thOtis" = Middle English "siteth".
Same line, final word EVA [shoekar] = Yorkist "thOetir" = Middle English "riteth".
In the 5th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the fifth word EVA [cholols] = Yorkist "Ychchl" = Middle English "lacche". (This is an example of the cipher writing final "e" as Yorkist cipher letter value "Y", and then writing the word backwards, in order to make the first letter "Y" of the word "YORK" appear as the first written character of words in the text as frequently as possible.)
Same line, sixth word EVA [chkaiin] = Yorkist "YtO" = Middle English "oute". (This word follows exactly the same process as described for the previous word.)
In the last line at the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [chokal] = Yorkist "Ydis" = Middle English "side". (Also the same process as the previous two words in this list.)
Geoffrey
My initial inspiration to identify the cipher rule to write any plaintext word with initial "b" backwards to make "b" appear in word-final position instead came from the three words of text on folio page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , where all three words end in EVA [m]. It so happens that all three of those words spell Middle English words both when read forwards and when read backwards. That was where the idea of the backwards b-words cipher rule first occurred to me.
Also, in the center ring of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the only two words that must be read backwards are the 5th and 10th words, which both have word-final EVA [m].
You can catch up on this particular topic within the thread by reading the following posts: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Again, I identified the backwards b-words cipher rule based on all of these prior passages of text, before I ever even looked at the 10 lines of text on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that are under discussion here.
Again, the "Yorkist" motivation for this rule is to banish the first letter of "BolingBroke", the name of the first Lancastrian king Henry IV, to the end of almost every word in which it appears.
Thus, the Middle English words "bimoueth", "BiYtch", "biri", and "bou" are all written backwards at the ends of lines in this passage, because of this rule.
The Middle English word "si-sib" does not need to be written backwards, because "b" is already at the end of it, "where it belongs" according to the Yorkist anti-Bolingbroke perspective of the authors and creators of this cipher!
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You also ask about examples of y/th being reversed in words in this passage. I can point to the following examples:
In the 7th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [sheol] = Yorkist "theOs" = Middle English "soueth".
Same line, sixth word EVA [sholar] = Yorkist "thOsir" = Middle English "riseth". (I explain elsewhere that "O" is sometimes written to represent an unstressed "e" in endings such as "-er" and "-eth". The "Yorkist" motivation is to make the letter "O" in "YORK" appear as frequently as possible in the text.)
And the final word in this line is an example of both the backwards b-words and backwards final-th-words cipher rules: EVA [sheoctham] = Yorkist "theOmib" = Middle English "bimoueth".
In the 6th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [shokal] = Yorkist "thOtis" = Middle English "siteth".
Same line, final word EVA [shoekar] = Yorkist "thOetir" = Middle English "riteth".
In the 5th line from the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the fifth word EVA [cholols] = Yorkist "Ychchl" = Middle English "lacche". (This is an example of the cipher writing final "e" as Yorkist cipher letter value "Y", and then writing the word backwards, in order to make the first letter "Y" of the word "YORK" appear as the first written character of words in the text as frequently as possible.)
Same line, sixth word EVA [chkaiin] = Yorkist "YtO" = Middle English "oute". (This word follows exactly the same process as described for the previous word.)
In the last line at the bottom of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , the second word EVA [chokal] = Yorkist "Ydis" = Middle English "side". (Also the same process as the previous two words in this list.)
Geoffrey