labels as words

[ReneZ]

When I found the attached correspondence between three of the first labels in Pisces, and three words on f107r, I thought I was really on to something.

After further searches, I wondered if it wasn't just a coincidence.
I am still undecided....

There is actually a lot more behind this.

If one could link each zodiac label to one paragraph in the 'recipes' section, one would make a big step in understanding the MS.
If this link also followed some order, it would be even better.
We don't know exactly what are the start points for each of the circles of zodiac labels, though we can make some reasonable guesses. The order of recipes in the recipes section may also have been rearranged.

To have good evidence for a link between the zodiac labels and the recipes section (and possibly similarly for the pharma labels), one would need to have a high percentage of matches. It doesn't have to be 100% since both sections are incomplete.

The percentage I found seems more than trivial, i.e. more than just chance, and in particlar it is interesting to see that most usually each recipe links to only one label.
The percentage is, however, also too low to be certain, and I didn't find any other sequences (yet) than the three at the start of Pisces.

When doing these types of matches, one develops the feeling that one should be able to do a 'fuzzy' match. Many 'a's and 'o's are not so clear, and similarly with other letters.

What is more, and this is the main point I am wondering about:
it is quite conceivable, that the method used by the (one or more) people writing the text of the MS, allowed for some freedom. This could be the introduction of nulls, the representation of source characters by different code characters or combinations, etc etc.
In that case, the same plain text word may end up in the MS with different representations.

This is one way how the different Currier languages could be explained. Also the gradual transition from A to B that seems to be there.