22-09-2021, 03:13 PM
Since there has been a lot of interesting research and discussion recently about the swallowtail merlons castle drawing and comparable known examples by Koen, Marco, Aga, and others, I have a question about the text in this rosette:
Does anyone have a clear transcription of the entire circle of text going around the rosette in which the castle with the swallowtail merlons appears? And also of any text in this rosette that looks like it could possibly be related to this castle drawing? For example, I see what looks like a label word or phrase outside the text circle directly "above" (technically to the left of, since the castle is actually oriented to the left on the page) the castle. The spiraling text in the middle of the rosette may also be interesting and relevant. Unfortunately, the otherwise very useful voynichese.com transcription does not include the Rosettes page, and even in the Beinecke images, when one zooms in on this rosette to make it large enough, the text is too blurry to read and make out the characters.
I have attached an image of the castle with the label outside the text circle, so that you can see which text I am referring to, and so you can see how the text in these images is either too small or too blurry to read and distinguish the characters.
Geoffrey
Does anyone have a clear transcription of the entire circle of text going around the rosette in which the castle with the swallowtail merlons appears? And also of any text in this rosette that looks like it could possibly be related to this castle drawing? For example, I see what looks like a label word or phrase outside the text circle directly "above" (technically to the left of, since the castle is actually oriented to the left on the page) the castle. The spiraling text in the middle of the rosette may also be interesting and relevant. Unfortunately, the otherwise very useful voynichese.com transcription does not include the Rosettes page, and even in the Beinecke images, when one zooms in on this rosette to make it large enough, the text is too blurry to read and make out the characters.
I have attached an image of the castle with the label outside the text circle, so that you can see which text I am referring to, and so you can see how the text in these images is either too small or too blurry to read and distinguish the characters.
Geoffrey