13-08-2016, 04:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-08-2016, 04:39 PM by Diane.
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I also wrote about theriac (Feb.2015), and still think that the limited number of ingredients even in the various recipes, together with the wide comparative set of languages in which those recipes are written, together with an illustrated theriac manual to check against the Voynich botanical folios might altogether be of some help to those working on the script and written part of the text.
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At the time, I did ask if anyone might like to help me, too, by translating the Arabic labels shown in my example. One kind expert agreed to do so and began it, but as he lives in an area where contact with foreigners is not encouraged, he found himself unable to do more.
It would still be appreciated if anyone with Arabic would be willing to do that.
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As to the manuscript's alluding to trade, the list of posts I've written explaining, illustrating, and demonstrating that point would fill more lines than I have time to add.
In any case, one can only present the evidence, the references, the primary source itself and the resulting argument.
To paraphrase a famous philosopher, "You cannot reason anyone out of a position to which they did not come, in the first place, by relying on reason."
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At the time, I did ask if anyone might like to help me, too, by translating the Arabic labels shown in my example. One kind expert agreed to do so and began it, but as he lives in an area where contact with foreigners is not encouraged, he found himself unable to do more.
It would still be appreciated if anyone with Arabic would be willing to do that.
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As to the manuscript's alluding to trade, the list of posts I've written explaining, illustrating, and demonstrating that point would fill more lines than I have time to add.
In any case, one can only present the evidence, the references, the primary source itself and the resulting argument.
To paraphrase a famous philosopher, "You cannot reason anyone out of a position to which they did not come, in the first place, by relying on reason."