I went and checked the mean Levenshtein distance for the vords on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. wrt each other. I think somebody else had already done so but since there are some differences between my reading and the voynichese one I thought I'd try too. As previously, no immediate drop/gap in values.
I also checked for occurrences where these labels happen on the same folio.
Beyond the presence of ytody and saral on f67r2 (the zodiac crib) that I already mentioned, it's interesting how ytody, okody and otody follow eachother on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and we have okody ytody in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Castor Oil plant?) and okody otody as star labels in the Pisces Zodiac and as part of a recipe in f112r. These are not common vords and they only appear a few times in the VM.
It would be interesting to see the Levenshtein distances for the 28 Lunar Mansions in latin. Somebody shared here a pdf with a latin translation by Guglielmo de Moncada of the work of Ibn Al-Hatim on Lunar mansions, dated in the 1480s. Here are the names in Latin of the Mansions.
I also checked for occurrences where these labels happen on the same folio.
- On You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (weird thistle-looking plant, potentially Castor Bean plant/Ricinus Communis): ytody / / okody. They appear one after the other as "okody ytody". They also follow each other on f69v.
- On f67r2 (Zodiac with planetary influences, one of the two "strongest" cribs in the VM according to the above thread): ytody / / saral / / ykeody. Ytody and saral are 8 spaces distant as in f69v, ykeody is one of the words in red ink in outer circle, above section before saral.
- On f68v2 (astronomical depiction of sky in 8 sections with stars?): oteeys / / ykeody. Oteeys appears in the outer circle followed by "sar", ykeody in the top line.
- f70r1 (weird astronomical illustration with 9 "o" characters in top ring): otody / / ykeody. Otody is inside one of six sections of inner "star" as a label, and ykeody is on the outermost ring.
- f70v2 (Pisces/March zodiac): okody / / otody. Both on star labels in the pisces zodiac, they follow each other on f69v.
- f73v (Saggittarius zodiac): otody / / okeod / / ykeody. Ykeody appears twice, one as star label in second circle and one on the outermost ring of words, okeod as a star label in innermost circle, and otody on second innermost ring of words.
- f101v2 (pharmaceutical section): okody / /saiir. Okody is in the top paragraph, saiir in the bottom paragraph.
- f102r2 (pharmaceutical section): okody / / ykeody. Okody is in the top paragraph, ykeody in the bottom one.
- f104r (recipes): saiir / / otody. otody is at the top of the page, saiir at the bottom.
- f112r (recipes): okody / / otody / / okeal. Again okody immediately precedes otody in the text, okeal is further down the page.
Beyond the presence of ytody and saral on f67r2 (the zodiac crib) that I already mentioned, it's interesting how ytody, okody and otody follow eachother on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and we have okody ytody in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (the Castor Oil plant?) and okody otody as star labels in the Pisces Zodiac and as part of a recipe in f112r. These are not common vords and they only appear a few times in the VM.
It would be interesting to see the Levenshtein distances for the 28 Lunar Mansions in latin. Somebody shared here a pdf with a latin translation by Guglielmo de Moncada of the work of Ibn Al-Hatim on Lunar mansions, dated in the 1480s. Here are the names in Latin of the Mansions.