A Cusanus Ladin Hypothesis

[pfeaster]

I'm glad you've found that seasonal metaphor for Voynichese text patterns interesting.  You write:

The metaphor offered by Feaster is much the same as I have suggested for the content of the text. This is the best or most useful metaphor Feaster can think of.... Feaster’s metaphor is too agricultural. There is no evidence of agriculture in the Voynich manuscript. This is a common mistaken assumption. 

Bear in mind that I meant this as a metaphor (as you say) rather than as an identification of actual subject matter.  I don't think Stolfi meant to imply that the meanings of Voynichese characters have anything to do with a planetary crust, mantle, and core either.  But of course its status as a metaphor doesn't mean some aspects of it *couldn't* be interpreted more literally.  (As an aside, I find myself thinking now of the notes I keep myself about when and where I find particular wild mushrooms.)

Something you wrote earlier in this thread caught my attention:

The text of the manuscript consists of LISTS of vords. Vords are grouped and arranged meaningfully in these lists, and according to a method, but there is no grammar. (It has about as much grammar as a phonebook. It is compiled.)

You went on to identify each line as a list and each paragraph as a collection of related lists.  Do you have any further thoughts about what kind of "method" the formal structure of a list/line might reveal?