29-04-2024, 11:45 AM
I confess, as an American I know little about the details of European history in the 15th century. I had never even heard of the Hussite Wars until very recently. But I do understand religious conflict.
Maybe the Voynich Manuscript wasn't written by the Taborites. Maybe it was written by one of the other groups in the Hussite Wars. Maybe the authors of the Voynich Manuscript wanted to totally divorce themselves from the Roman Catholic Church and from their Latin language. Maybe they wanted to take the Latin books that they had and make the information in them accessible to the common people. Maybe they created a kind of phonetic-based alphabet of the common language to help the common people learn to read.
Lots of speculation here. Sometimes you have to fling the spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks.
I don't read or speak modern Czech. I certainly don't read or speak 15th century Czech. According to Google Translate, the word "s" is "with". Surely this has been discussed extensively here on this message board. Can anyone point me to those discussions?
I have found at least 139 cases in the transcription by Takeshi Takahashi where the character of "s" is listed alone. I thought it was an abbreviation. Of course I don't know that what is listed here as "s" was what the writers intended as "s". I don't even know if this "s" word was used in the 15th century. It could be a more recent addition.
<f102v2.32,+P0;H> dar.cheor.sheor.okeol.shoy.s.ar.oky.cheeor.ol.daiin.sy
Maybe the Voynich Manuscript wasn't written by the Taborites. Maybe it was written by one of the other groups in the Hussite Wars. Maybe the authors of the Voynich Manuscript wanted to totally divorce themselves from the Roman Catholic Church and from their Latin language. Maybe they wanted to take the Latin books that they had and make the information in them accessible to the common people. Maybe they created a kind of phonetic-based alphabet of the common language to help the common people learn to read.
Lots of speculation here. Sometimes you have to fling the spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks.
I don't read or speak modern Czech. I certainly don't read or speak 15th century Czech. According to Google Translate, the word "s" is "with". Surely this has been discussed extensively here on this message board. Can anyone point me to those discussions?
I have found at least 139 cases in the transcription by Takeshi Takahashi where the character of "s" is listed alone. I thought it was an abbreviation. Of course I don't know that what is listed here as "s" was what the writers intended as "s". I don't even know if this "s" word was used in the 15th century. It could be a more recent addition.
<f102v2.32,+P0;H> dar.cheor.sheor.okeol.shoy.s.ar.oky.cheeor.ol.daiin.sy