Rosettes foldout: cardinal directions?

[Mark Knowles]

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.

The problem with this is that with all VMS labels - they do not seem to be designators. Look at f68v, the supposed "Asia" part there does not feature this asal at all, and labels for other continents are different as well.

I have seen You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and given it some thoughts, which are somewhere in the forum. There are two possibilities:

1) The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. T/O map is not an Asia, Europe and Africa T/O map, but something else e.g. "Earth", "Fire", "Water"
2) The You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. T/O map half circle contains a list of places in Asia therefore, of course, the text for "Asia" would not be contained within it.

I think (2) is the more plausible. One thing that is noticeable is the gaps and spacing of the vords in the half circle, so this is not flowing "sentence" text. So these words seem more like a collection of labels such as "India", "Persia" as is not unusual to see in T/O maps.

When it comes to the labels for other continents these may just be abbreviated forms on the Rosettes T/O map as the starting glyphs seem like they might be the same as on the f68v, though it hard to tell as they are quite faded.