19-11-2022, 10:10 AM
(18-11-2022, 01:03 PM)Searcher wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Dictionaries contain words in alphabetical sequence, so if the VMs is some kind of glossary or dictionary, it must contain absolutely similar sequential words at the beginning, at least, of a paragraph, but it doesn't. As for grammars, it seems to be possible.
This is a popular late medieval chant "Virgo Virginum":
Veni virgo virginum veni lumen luminum veni vena veniae
Veni salus hominum veni splendor ordinum caelestis militiae
Consolatrix inclita veni vide visita certantes in acie
Nos rege nos excita nos fove nos suscita de lacu miseriae
Veni Jesse virgula veni rosa primula rosa carens carie
Peccatorum vincula rumpe prece sedula praesentis familiae
Magne major maxima reple cordis intima caelesti temperie
Consolatrix optima esto nobis proxima rogans regem gloriae
Ut nos jungat superis dans nobis in dexteris post spem frui specie
Quae regina diceris miserere miseris virgo mater gratiae.
The firtst line is especially interesting with its repetitions:
Veni virgo virginum veni lumen luminum veni vena veniae
The part [ven] has been repeated here 5 times in the three different words (veni - come; vena - stream, vein; veniae - of grace), veni itself is repeated 3 times. As well, there are two word pairs with the same root: virgo virginum, lumen luminum. Also we can find such kinds of word pairs: carens carie, miserere miseris. The word "nos" is repeated 4 times in the fifth line. Also, I marked part "ma", as it is repeated quite often, for example, in the line "Magne major maxima reple cordis intima caelesti temperie" - 5 times. Dividing some words we can get such a string:
magne ma jor maxi ma reple cor dis inti ma.
What do you think about such chants, could they be a content of the VMs?
Playing with division of the words in the first line "Veni virgo virginum veni lumen luminum veni vena veniae" and substituting letters with the Voynich glyphs, I've got such a string:
ven ivir govir ginvm venil vmen lv minvm ven i vena ven iae
ched ochor tachor toiin chedol chked lch koiin ched o chedy ched og
That is very useful and suggestive Searcher. Many thanks. The Voynich needs comparison with late medieval inventory literatures. It is beyond my skills and resources to make such a study so I appreciate contributions in that direction.
On appearances, the text is very chant-like isn't it? Try it in EVA. It works as a chant - resonant, rhyming, strongly alliterative, elongated vowels. I asked the question: if not prose, what? The obvious reply would be: poetry. The possible poetic nature of the text tends to be overlooked. Amongst other things, the purpose of poetry (as opposed to prose) is mnemonic.
Nor need that be incompatible with an inventory: a chanted inventory, made to be easy to remember entries, is possible especially in a pre-printing press context.
What type of inventory might it be? The safest and most likely answer is: one relevant to the illustrations.
In this respect, I note that the nymphs in the ms. are depicted taking measurements.

