Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

Responding to Mark Knowles, you have an excellent illustration of the 28 mansions of the moon in the Catalan Altas, which is more or less from the Voynich era.

Do you have any links? And when does it date from?

Hi, All:

So I spent some time down this rabbit hole this weekend.  As with everything related to medieval studies and therefore, the Voynich manuscript there is no simple answer to any of this.

Hope this helps.

Michelle

That's a brilliant effort.

This subject is far from being my area of expertise, as most people well know, however if we can transform this from being a loose crib to something more robust, maybe even a block paradigm, that would be amazing. A robust reliable crib of 28 items would be very valuable whatever theory about Voynichese one has. A "well it could mean this or it could mean that" kind of crib is much less useful.

The same applies to other suggested cribs.

Whether one is proving or disproving a hypothesis using a crib the confidence we can have in a crib is crucial.