16-03-2025, 03:24 PM
Looks promising; there is a 2020 paper by Matlach, Dostal and Janeckova (VM: Symbol Roles Revised) which basically argues that the entire VM is a cipher, and that the complex characters are ligatures of simpler ones, which brings down the total count of characters to 10 (which the authors argue fit well with a basic number sequence: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).
Funnily enough, if you have a look at f49v, there is a sequence of characters and more interestingly of numbers 1 to 5 in the same hand and ink than the rest of the page.
It would be interesting to see if any other "values" could be derived on the Pisces zodiac folio. There are 10 figures in the inner circle and 19 in the outer one, I've copied the vords below, starting at North-West and going clockwise.
Inner:
1: otar am
2: otaral
3: otalar
4: otalam
5: dolaram
6: okaram
7: oteosal
8: salols
9: okaldal
10: ykolaiin
Outer:
1: otar
2: oty
3: okyody
4: otyar
5: okaly
6: otody
7: otald
8: otaldar
9: okody
10: opysam
11: chckhhy
12: otaly
13: otal rar
14: otal dy
15: okeoly
16: okydy
17: okeer
18: otalalg
19: okady
Funnily enough, if you have a look at f49v, there is a sequence of characters and more interestingly of numbers 1 to 5 in the same hand and ink than the rest of the page.
It would be interesting to see if any other "values" could be derived on the Pisces zodiac folio. There are 10 figures in the inner circle and 19 in the outer one, I've copied the vords below, starting at North-West and going clockwise.
Inner:
1: otar am
2: otaral
3: otalar
4: otalam
5: dolaram
6: okaram
7: oteosal
8: salols
9: okaldal
10: ykolaiin
Outer:
1: otar
2: oty
3: okyody
4: otyar
5: okaly
6: otody
7: otald
8: otaldar
9: okody
10: opysam
11: chckhhy
12: otaly
13: otal rar
14: otal dy
15: okeoly
16: okydy
17: okeer
18: otalalg
19: okady