The Voynich Manuscript as an Iberian-African Voyage Record

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I want to give some pictures from old nautical astrology or nautical logbooks from Portugal so you can see the similarities (maybe). First book is called Livro de Marinharia 1514. I know its later, but there is nothing left from the old roteiros, maybe because they were not useful at all because they were unreadable.  

   

Translation (LLM was used!):

1. 〚Maj[o] murado na noĩa — 1 ora abaixo da cabeça (e na fim do mar na noĩa na leste)〛
   → May walled in the noia — 1 hour below the head (and at the end of the sea in the noia in the east)
   
2. 〚Junho murado na noĩa — 1 ora abaixo da linha do mez noroueste na fim do mar na noĩa abaixo da linha〛
   → June walled in the noia — 1 hour below the line of the northwest month at the end of the sea in the noia below the line
   
3. 〚Julho murado na noĩa no baixo do dalinho na fim do mar na noĩa hua ora〛
   → July walled in the noia at the low of the dalinho at the end of the sea in the noia one hour
   
4. 〚Agosto murado na noĩa — 2 oras abaixo do cravo (e na fim do mar na noĩa na leste)〛
   → August walled in the noia — 2 hours below the clove (and at the end of the sea in the noia in the east)
   
5. 〚Setembro murado na noĩa hua ora abaixo da linha (e na fim do mar — 2 oras abaixo da linha)〛
   → September walled in the noia one hour below the line (and at the end of the sea — 2 hours below the line)
   
6. 〚Outubro murado na noĩa no pẽt (na fim do mar na noĩa acima do pẽt)〛
   → October walled in the noia at the pẽt (at the end of the sea in the noia above the pẽt)
   
7. 〚Novembro murado na noĩa 2 oras acima do pẽt na fim do mar na noĩa da na leste do firmador〛
   → November walled in the noia two hours above the pẽt at the end of the sea in the noia in the east of the firmador
   
8. 〚Dezembro murado na noĩa hua ora acima da linha na fim do mar na noĩa 2 nas acima da linha〛
   → December walled in the noia one hour above the line at the end of the sea in the noia two above the line
   

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(Diagram text)
“abrilmeado / mayo / fin de mayo / fin de julio / fin de enero / fin de marzo” etc.
→ mid-April / May / end of May / end of July / end of January / end of March

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Last paragraph:
〚Assy as guardas de nova desta forma as noĩas na cabeça a meado d’abril dally dao passando fugido na costa pela banda do mar de mayo & cada 15 dias passam hua hora adiante, & d’huas d’alboda atè ardecer〛
→ Thus the guards of the new (moon?) in this form, the noias at the head in mid-April, from there passing fleetingly along the coast on the side of the sea of May, and every 15 days they pass one hour forward, and from the dawns until sunset.

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Notes on context:

• noĩa (modern noite or noção) likely refers here to a nautical “noon line” or direction; possibly noite (night), noia as “sign” or “mark.”
  
• murado (“walled”) in 16th-century Portuguese nautical notes often meant “fixed” or “marked”, not literally “walled.”
  
• The circular diagram appears to be an astrological or navigational wheel, marking solar or lunar hours and compass divisions.
  

This is from a book around 1570. It shows the 12 winds. Which could be what is f67r2 is about. In the middle you have 8 arms of a compass rose and then you have the 12 winds.
   

This is about how to navigate with an astrolabe, in the outer circle are the names of the month: 

   

You need something with stars? Here it is. 

LLM: 
The page explains:

• How the Sun moves through the zodiac and the ecliptic plane.
  
• How six principal celestial circles are imagined on the sphere of the heavens.
  
• How these circles relate to the poles, the equator, the tropics, and the zodiac signs.
  
• The relationship between the Sun and Moon, especially when they appear in the same or opposite zodiac signs — i.e. solar and lunar eclipses.
  

   

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If the voynich mauscript is from Portugal, Spain or  Italy, I don't know, but what we can say for sure, there is at least a part, that has something to do with nautical navigation.