Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

For the Voynich Manuscript, cribs are what idiots use to shoot themselves in the foot. 90+% of bs decryptions start with hallucinated cribs and go downhill from there.

You are absolutely right. However I think this is due to their often weak claims for the crib they are using. That is why what one wants is to be able to be highly confident in the crib one has. So the reliability of the crib is key. I appreciate that your block paradigm approach can potentially result in higher levels of confidence; for example a block paradigm for the 28 mansions of the moon Illustration would be great.

I would say that, because of their potential usefulness a discussion of cribs is a very valuable one.

I have searched the forum, but I can't seem to find much reference to illustrations of the mansions of the moon in European documents from the time of the Voynich. Have people found a number of examples of such illustrations?