Cribs in the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

Regarding the suggested 28 mansions of the moon, I imagine, though I don't know, that they are always featured in the same clockwise/anticlockwise order. However ensuring that one has the correct one to one correspondence depends on getting the orientation right i.e. establishing which is the 1st mansion of the moon in the Voynich illustration. I wonder if in these illustrations the 1st mansion of the moon was drawn at a specific angle, e.g. 12 o'clock and so from the top.

Also can we also produce a mapping for the rest of the text on this drawing?

I don't even know, myself, if this drawing represents the mansions of the moon. However it would seem that the precise number '28' would be strongly supportive of the idea that there is a correspondence, as I would guess this is unlikely to be a coincidence.