01-07-2021, 10:15 PM
(01-07-2021, 09:46 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Regarding the T-O map, they used to mess it all up, so it cannot be said for sure which sector is what continent. We discussed that elsewhere in the forum.
But one would expect it to be consisitent throughout the MS, I believe.
You are right that occasionally "Europe" and "Africa" are swapped. However in the vast majority of cases that I have seen the half circle is "Asia" and from the point of view of the half circle, "Europe" is above and to the right and "Africa" is above and to the left.
In fact if anybody were to ask me which word in the Voynich I could best guess the meaning of, I would say, EVA-asal is "asia" as we read in the T/O map on the Rosettes folio. Note here EVA-al is joined, so I don't think the first EVA-a of the word is the same character as the second EVA-a. This is almost worryingly simple. Is this to say that in this specific context EVA-a is "a", EVA-s is "s" and EVA-al is "ia"? I don't know, but it is possible. Of course that is not to say that this simple mapping applies universally throught the manuscript, though it is possible.