Cribs in the Voynich MS

[ReneZ]

There are still lots of other cribs.

In the majority of old illustrated herbals, the first word in the description / recipe of the herb is the name of the plant. This is the main reason why people have been trying to identify the plants drawn in the MS. This would provide  a good crib for each herb.

There are just a few cases where the herb name seems to have been written near the herb, most notoriously on f41v, which was used by Stephen Bax.

Then there are all the star names on f68r1 and f68r2, but these are more difficult because we dont have any indication which star is meant in each case.

Next are the labels in the pharme section, near each of the small plant fragments.

My single favourite crib is the dairal or dairol on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (upper left corner), even though it is not immeidately obvious which PT word should appear here. However, the candidates are limited.

Then there is the ios an on (or similar - barely legible) on one leaf of f2r, which we could expect to mean 'green'.